The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person’s face. When you forgive, it’s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who’d...

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...

You’ve got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind… And each time it plays you feel the clap...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can’t get out of bed.It’s something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the edge like junglefoliage, the terry...

The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our...

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people —...

Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently....

…God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver…. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who...

Being wise and being smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called wise.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance…A useful gift all love’s practitioners can give is...

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

quote Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person’s nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

It’s like this old patchwork quilt my momma used to have…Each piece on that quilt meant something. And some of those pieces were the damn ugliest things you’ve ever seen…But some of the pieces were...

One day you’ll have what’s better.

Murderers don’t get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems...

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom...

other person” plays Hell trying to make-up for it. Married, divorced or dead, the ‘other person’ can never replace what was lost so muchearlier in the life and soul of the oppressed. Forgiveness must be...

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” Therefore,...

She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this...

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon you’ll...

Forgiveness can be viewed as love, But love doesn’t always guarantee forgiveness.

Where you see and feel wrongdoing, Divine Mind sees opportunity to restore Wholeness.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not...

When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don’t make...

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can’t set us free of it. He won’t take those things by force.

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...

…and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn’t change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place...

What you cant forget… God cant remember!

I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can’t steal it back and I’m...