People Forgive As They Are Forgiven. When it comes down to it, anyone who forgives can hardly tell the difference between feeling forgiven and doing the forgiving. We cannot forgive people who offend us without feeling that we are being set free ourselves. I have not found a better example of this truth than Corrie Ten Boom. She was trapped for the war years in a concentration camp, humiliated and degraded, especially in the delousing shower where the women were ogled by the leering guards. But she