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.

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better.Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to...

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who’s left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like...

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can’t really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks....

Three essential keys (FAITH, HOPE and LOVE) will open the Heavens door.

If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.

May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

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.

Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when they fail, they create the perfect scenario for you to run into your...

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up...

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions…but you...

Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.

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...