forgiveness

...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

Sometimes a person can say I__ sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

The ability to forgive is one of man__ greatest achievements.

People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.

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.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn__ really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents_ passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any 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.

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.