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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#forgiveness

A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#permission #strong #weak #forgiveness

By becoming aware of God’s Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals—and by extension our hearts—with a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #god #meditation #mindful-eating

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#face #humor #mirror #ugliness #humor

We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#forgiveness

Healing Follows Forgiveness ↗

— Pat Bluth

#grief #healing #hope #forgiveness

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#plurality #promise #forgiveness

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#forgiveness

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives. ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#sovereignty-of-god #forgiveness

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#grace #forgiveness