Quotes by Speakers - Page 101

The fearful have lost faith while the fearless allow faith to lead the way.
Bryant McGill
There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.
Bryant McGill
We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.
Bryant McGill
Her bed felt huge and empty now, and when she slept, she did so with her arm around a pillow. She dreamed of him almost every night, sometimes good dreams of happy days and joyful times; often they were terrible dreams of abandonment, loss and sorrow. She didn't know which was worse: every morning she woke afresh to the knowledge that he was gone and he would never come back. It would never be all right again.
Maeve Binchy
Horror shares an edge with hilarity.
Shannon Huffman Polson
This is the context in which the story must be understood—as one incident in human history, an incident in certain ways and to certain people important, but only one incident. God is the God of human history, and He is at work continuously, mysteriously, accomplishing His eternal purposes in us, through us, for us, and in spite of us.
Elisabeth Elliot
Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
Rita Schiano
Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.
Brent Green
Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.
Brent Green
I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for his suffering that surely clawed at his daily routines, always active and busy, but he rarely verbalized complaints while courageously challenging his archenemy. He met pain and physical decline with 600-calorie workouts; he discarded anxieties somewhere along innumerable running trails; he faced death by running through life at full stride.
Brent Green
Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We all must suffer, whether we choose to or not. There must be value in that which is given in our lives, even though we hope and try to live joyfully and enjoy our brief time on earth.
Brent Green
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
Richard Paul Evans
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
Richard Paul Evans
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
Anne Lamott
The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
Brennan Manning
Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
Bryant McGill
True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".
Serita Ann Jakes
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.
Paul David Tripp
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
Paul David Tripp
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
Richard Paul Evans
Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.
Steve Maraboli
Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition.
Soul Dancer
Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!
T.F. Hodge
Kindness: a waltz with forgiveness and hope.
Soul Dancer
As long as we share our stories, as long as our stories reveal our strengths and vulnerabilities to each other, we reinvigorte our understanding and tolerance for the little quirks of personality that in other circumstances would drive us apart. When we live in a family, a community, a country where we know each other's true stories, we remember our capacity to lean in and love each other into wholeness. I have read the story of a tribe in southern Africa called the Babemba in which a person doing something wrong, something that destroys this delicate social net, brings all work in the village to a halt. The people gather around the "offender," and one by one they begin to recite everything he has done right in his life: every good deed, thoughtful behavior, act of social responsibility. These things have to be true about the person, and spoken honestly, but the time-honored consequence of misbehavior is to appreciate that person back into the better part of himself. The person is given the chance to remember who he is and why he is important to the life of the vi
Christina Baldwin
We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.
Karen Todd Scarpulla
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.
Karen Todd Scarpulla
Forgiveness is a process that we have to learn to act upon daily. Anger is weakened by forgiveness. When you forgive, you free yourself from carrying around the torment that the offense has caused you.
E'yen A. Gardner
Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.
E'yen A. Gardner
If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.
Steve Maraboli
Your number one task here is forgiving yourself and the people who mistreat you. You must learn to do this if you want to experience real happiness and peace in this life. You must do this if you want to feel accepted, valued and safe. The only way to feel innocent and worthy – is to give it to other people. That is just how it works.
Kimberly Giles
When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.
Genevieve Gerard
This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.
Vironika Tugaleva
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.
Richard Rohr
The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
Richard Rohr
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
Richard Rohr
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
Richard Rohr
Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.
Bryant McGill
Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.
Bryant McGill
I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
M. Spio
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant McGill
Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
Bryant McGill
Forgiveness can help you to be sane.
Bryant McGill
All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.
Bryant McGill
Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all make mistakes. Apologize and move forward. Do not replay the event in your head. Do not continue to beat yourself up. Do not profusely explain, defend yourself, make excuses or blame. After you apologize, do no more explaining; never explain more than once — ever.
Bryant McGill
A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.
Bryant McGill
To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.
Bryant McGill
To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
Bryant McGill
Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.
Bryant McGill
Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business.
Bryant McGill
Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.
Bryant McGill
When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.
Bryant McGill
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.
E'yen A. Gardner
Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.
Gudjon Bergmann
Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.
Gudjon Bergmann
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
Gudjon Bergmann