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Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you? Do you not understand the permanent mental connections that are made when you stroke your son’s bare back or rub your daughter’s bare tummy while you tell bedtime stories? And if any idiot says anything about that being inappropriate, you’re gonna get kicked in the face, first by me, and then by every other good dad out there. Touching your child is your duty as a father. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers. ↗

— Himmilicious

#personification #forgiveness

A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don't hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn't have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#forgiveness #hatred #peace #perspective #forgiveness

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can’t find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day? ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#murder #society #forgiveness

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#grow-up #forgiveness

I have learnt to seek solace in knowing, this is me. Pandora Poikilos from her novel Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#forgiveness #hurt #novel #pain #people

بدلاً من أن نمقت أعدائنا ينبغي أن نشفق عليهم، وأن نحمد الله عز وجل على أنه لم يخلقنا مثلهم. ↗

— كلارنس وارد

#forgiveness #peace #thankful #forgiveness

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #repentance #the-cross #forgiveness

To progress is always to begin always to begin again ↗

— Martin Luther

#progress #salvation #sanctification #forgiveness