Words for My Soul

“You don’t have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.”
—Dan Fallon

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
—Paul Boese

“You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy….”
-Stephanie Marston; family therapist, author

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
-G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936); writer, critic

“Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
-Reverend E.H. Chapin (1814-1880)

“The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.” ~Madame de Stoel