To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.
– Jean Vanier
Related Quotes:
- God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals…His Glory and Your Good! – Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
- Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community. – Jean Vanier
- I write because it hurts.because I need it to hurt.because it hurts in the mostbeautiful way possible.(because it hurts like you) – F D Soul
- We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Jean Vanier
- In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. – Billy Graham
- …you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them – either way you have to forgive… – John Geddes
- The friend of time doesn’t spend all day saying: ‘I haven’t got time.’ He doesn’t fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it. – Jean Vanier
- People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. – Jean Vanier
- We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. – Jean Vanier
- The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means. – Jean Vanier
- A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. – Jean Vanier
- When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them. – Jean Vanier
- Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts. – Jean Vanier
- An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law. – Jean Vanier
- Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good. – Billy Graham
- Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
- I believe what Jesus said was, ‘I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. – Orson Scott Card
- Even when someone hurts you, find the strength to forgive them, understand them, and let it go. – Michael Unks
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. – William C Dement
- Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night. – Charles A Fisher
- Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits. – Pooja Ruprell
- Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. – Patrick McGrath
- Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
- Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past? – J Limbu
- You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget. – Laura Aranda
- Grow past your past and march past the flag of the past! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Past is past… no it’s not! People are always fond of saying that, but what’s past is never past; not entirely. – Anne Tyler
- Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful… – Jos N Harris
- It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to. – Chrissy Moon
- Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering. – Paulo Coelho
- Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness. – Thea Harrison
- Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more. – George RR Martin
- It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living. – CJ Tulli
- Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson – LJ Vanier
- Let’s forgive someone for Valentines day, it’s a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto. – Jay Woodman
- The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees it is a part of you. – LJ Vanier
- The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God. – LJ Vanier