#forgive

I'm Sorry,' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways. ↗

— Libba Bray

#religion #beauty

God’s forgiveness doesn’t come cheaply, nor is it a ticket to do what we jolly well please because there’s a get out of jail free card at the end. Instead, it is the life-changing embrace of love that welcomes us when we’ve no reason to expect it. We cannot fail deeply enough for God to give us up. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#god #grace #love #change

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-the-bigger-person #building-people-up #change-the-world #change-your-life #changing-a-life

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dream #failures #forgiven #life #people

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope. ↗

— Robert S. Graetz

#hope #nonviolence #death

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace. ↗

— Stephen Craig

#note #peace #sorry #suicide #death

You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven. ↗

— Dawn Metcalf

#forgiveness #inspirational #forgiveness

And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When he tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all. ↗

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

#forgiveness #letting-go #experience

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness