#forgive

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#inner-peace #forgiveness

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#ethics #jesus #love #morality #principles

Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile. ↗

— -Unknown

#life #love #forgiveness

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#grace #forgiveness

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hate #love #suffer #forgiveness

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#genocide #questionings #rwanda #forgiveness

How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen? ↗

— Nadia Scrieva

#respect #samurai #forgiveness

In Despite Of Sadness Don't Let It Conquer Ur Heart But Let Forgiveness and Acceptance Do And Happiness Will Reign Over You ↗

— Ronaldo David Jr.

#forgiveness

I need to hear the words of this book—its truth, forgiveness, hope—as much as anybody.” Nathaniel looked up with an apologetic smile. “I know I’m no great orator. But I ask you to bear with me as I fumble through this new duty. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#fairbourne-hall #nathaniel-upchurchiel #forgiveness

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#understanding #writing #forgiveness