Quotes related to Colossians 3:13
Wounding smashes relationships. We can never return to the way we were before the wounding took place, which in itself adds a dimension to our grief that is very deep. Yet it is possible for severed relationships to be reconciled.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Let go of the overwhelming desire to justify what you did and explain what they did.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Would the contagious cycle of pain in your life, or that of your family or church, be stopped if you would be the first to reach out, to give in, to say you are sorry, or at the very least open up a conversation on the source of the wounds?
- Anne Graham Lotz
Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.
- Anne Graham Lotz
We teach others how to treat us.
- Anonymous
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
- Anonymous
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.
- Mother Angelica
Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.
- Euripides
Forgotten is forgiven.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
- William Hazlitt