God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.
– Pope Francis
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- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
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- Love melts. Love heals. Love unites. Love forgives. A Divine Union that goes beyond time and space, that’s what I’m looking for-” – Nityananda Das
- It is wise to know God forgives sins, if only turn to walk in the light. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin. – Pope Francis
- Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world. – Pope Francis
- We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. – Richard Rohr
- Divine determination and decree is this: that God has foreordained all people without exception unto eternal life, for his love is unconditional. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. – John Paul II
- I can’t believe I’ve missed this sport. It’s all about fingering holes and caressing balls. – KA Mitchell
- Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth… – Keri Hulme
- When you give without expectations, you feel that joy is rushing through you like the spring breeze caressing a newly blooming flower. – Debasish Mridha
- He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time. – Donna Lynn Hope
- We can all benefit by learning to express and meet out physical needs in a loving, caressing and compassionate way – David Bresler
- We need to remember and remind ourselves where we come from, what we are, our nothingness. – Pope Francis
- What need does the earth have of us? – Pope Francis
- The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don’t let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ. – Pope Francis
- We can get angry: it’s even healthy to get angry from time to time. – Pope Francis
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will. – Aleister Crowley
- Regular people wait for someone to take their sins, while deliverers take the sins of the people upon themselves – Sunday Adelaja
- Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission, – Stephen Bungay
- Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You’ll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins. – C JoyBell C
- A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. – Karl Ove Knausgrd
- The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man! – John Paul Warren
- Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them. – Omoakhuana Anthonia
- There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology. – Amy Hatvany
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- Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence. – Doug Rice
- Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. – Emma Forrest
- Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don’t last forever. That healing is possible. – Lecrae Moore
- Wounds are wounds. Scars are scars. They can heal but not vanish. – DN Joshi
- Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal. – Diana Pharaoh Francis
- The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can! – John Paul Warren
- Splendor was the decree of the day. – Karen Azinger