forgiveness

I decide to put love in everything I do from this day forward. With every fold of laundry, every push of the grocery cart, every stir of a pot, and every word spoken, I will emanate love.

God is love__e is gracious and forgives.

Every friend, every neighbor, and every family member wishes that you retain your golden heart. No one wants to see your love sullied. Yet, they all know a dark circumstance will find you eventually. Know this: You are being hunted--like game. Life will knock you down with some unexpected misfortune. Resolve now, to help your partner get back up. Only a determined family kills its wounded. When everyone else abandons him, come back for your husband.pg 55

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

. . . it__ okay if we get mad at each other?___eah, Buddy, it__ OK, as long as we don__ stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.__rom upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms.

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

We had a dream that we would always be best friends. When we were born, for some it was the end. Now it seems there may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror and the sorrow, I love our world. I want us all to live. Now Rosa, you've asked me to forgive. One day, if mom survives this bitter night, then we shall meet again, and I will say, I loved you Rosa. Don't you see? But we are different, you dream of everlasting love. Not me. Because what really matters is to live. And if we do, there will be nothing to forgive. But I'll forgive you anyway.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it__ left behind.

A long held belief based on a perceived reality that is rooted in a diminishing view of yourself or others probably is not serving you.Today is a good day to let go of one of them.Today is a great day to let go of one of them-if it's a secret grudge you've been harboringfor years.Particularly if that person is YOU.

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love

Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.

Why is it so important for me to forgive that son-of-a-bitch? I__ not the one at fault here. It shouldn__ be about me. He__ the one that did wrong. Screw his feelings. He should feel like he__ hated for what he did._ Lisa added another used tissue to the growing pile on the table.Lyn warmly smiled. __orgiving Byron isn__ for his sake, it__ for yours. The block in your life__ road can only be removed if you forgive him for what he did. If you don__, you__l just keep bumping into that block again and again. The life you live will be miserable. You__l never be able to break the chains of the past.__isa listened and let the words sink into her subconscious. She realized the only way to get to the end of the road was to take the first step. There was a block preventing her from moving forward in life. She had to find a way past it.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.