Forgiveness & Love

Forgiveness is not a case of 'holy amnesia' that wipes out the part. Instead, it is the experience of healing that drains the poison from the wound.Because we all need forgiveness, we should all be quick to forgive.
If you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
-Matthew 6:15
Hate stirs up trouble, Love forgives all offences.
-Proverbs 10:12


"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness... The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers... of love is hell"
-The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
To love is to take risks, to expose our hearts. Nothing costs as much as loving- except not loving.
(Read 1 Corinthians 13)

Quotable Quotes
Don't underestimate love at first sight; many of us might not pass a second inspection.
-Ethel (adapted from Archie Comics)

If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
-Norman Borlaug
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
-Angela Schwindt
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
-Author Unknown
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
- Stewart Udall