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Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#ethics #jesus #love #morality #principles

Life is short. Break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile. ↗

— -Unknown

#life #love #forgiveness

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#grace #forgiveness

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 who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hate #love #suffer #forgiveness

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. ↗

— Caroline Myss

#love #myss #mysticism #prayer #forgiveness

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#forgiving #heartbreak #love #forgiveness

If you trust every one you can trust no one. ↗

— Chloe Kayne

#enemies #friendship #trust #friendship

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination ↗

— Cressida Cowell

#imagination

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#inspirational #inspirational

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ↗

— Hellen Keller

#daring #inspirational #life #motivational #inspirational