Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Holding on to expectations is often the source of unforgiving feelings.

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

Forgiveness is not between me and the one who has hurt me; it is between me and the Lord.

Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace.

You cant Realize Someone Good Is Coming Your Way, if still Remain Sleep on the Fact that they Actually Exist! Wake and smell the Coffee or Excuse yourself if your Nose is a bit Stuffy.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

I'm a very distracted person.

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.