#forgiven

God’s forgiveness doesn’t come cheaply, nor is it a ticket to do what we jolly well please because there’s a get out of jail free card at the end. Instead, it is the life-changing embrace of love that welcomes us when we’ve no reason to expect it. We cannot fail deeply enough for God to give us up. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#god #grace #love #change

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-the-bigger-person #building-people-up #change-the-world #change-your-life #changing-a-life

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dream #failures #forgiven #life #people

I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life... and hope. ↗

— Robert S. Graetz

#hope #nonviolence #death

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#forgiveness

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#forgiveness

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#forgiveness

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendships #honoring-yourself #letting-go #loving-yourself