That's why we must speak of the miracle of forgiveness. It's a miracle from God that transcends our natural calculations and impulses. It's a gift. It's the miracle that makes the world go round. I said when I began that the great truths of faith don't do violence to experience.
Forgiveness is like that.
However miraculous the experience of forgiveness may be for us, it really does make the world go round. It's forgiveness that makes life and inner freedom possible. Try to receive a gift with hands unopened. It can't be done. Try to receive God's forgiveness with a heart unready to forgive others.