Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

How can I judge?” she said at last. “To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster.” She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. “I miss him! Curse...

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living...

I don’t understand women that call themselves a “bitch”. It doesn’t empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you...

Sometimes people aren’t hating on you. Because they feel a certain way about themselves, they just don’t know how to be happy for you.

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

Life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

To forgive does not mean to condone.

But why is it so hard to forgive?’ Mrs. Conners asked.’Pride,’ Dad said. ‘This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give...

And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed...

Forgiving practice is like peeling an onion, you have to do over and over again many times to achieve freedom… Each time we visualize the person in front of us and forgive, we peel off...

Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus…Will you ever forgive me?”Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Often we can’t reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don’t let your struggle become your identity.

In the past you have suppressed and denied the ego system. The ego has not been raised to awareness, but once you start to raise it to awareness and the stuff starts getting flushed up,...

Instead of negotiating or begging for mercy, [my brother Damascene] challenged them to kill him. “Go ahead,” he said. “What are you waiting for? Today is my day to go to God. I can feel...

Sometimes we carry unhappy feelings about past hurts too long. We spend too much energy dwelling on things that have passed and cannot be changed. We struggle to close the door and let go of...

We’re a team. It’s part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we’d never get anything done.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn’t hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

Love is an act; the act of loving, the act of compassionate and the act of forgiveness.

He doesn’t hurt us anymore.”Of course he doesn’t hurt you anymore, I think. You’re not defenseless anymore.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don’t make another wrong.

Divine grace is available for each one of us.

I’ve never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you’ll be mine.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in...

We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.” — Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Dogs are special that way—you can ignore them or yell at them, they always forgive you. —Madison

There’s a correlation between the number of digits on a man’s bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

It’s too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.

We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Not a single night has passed without your thoughts, I think some ppl are not meant to be together physically but what I know for sure is that I have loved a most beautiful soul...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on...

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness...

Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one...

Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy

Often what prevents us from seeing beauty in the outside world is the fact that we fail to see beauty in ourselves and other people. Forgiveness is the key that can unlock this door for...