#forgiveness

* The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving. ↗

Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury Ocean's Apart

#love #forgiveness

Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit. ↗

— C. Baxter Kruger

#salvation #forgiveness

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

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. ↗

— Caroline Myss

#love #myss #mysticism #prayer #forgiveness

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#forgiving #heartbreak #love #forgiveness

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#forgiveness #god #god-consciousness #mindful-of-god #piety

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better. ↗