It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice. It is spiritual murder, the worst, to hate, to brood over the feeling that excludes, that, in our microcosm, kills the image, the idea of the hated. No man who will not forgive his neighbor, can believe that God is willing, yea wanting, to forgive him.… If God said, “I forgive you” to a man who
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