Shari Arison Quotes

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

Meditation on the majestic energyof the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts.

I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.

Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all - even our inanimate and animal brothers - in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.

The Lord is forgiving, but sometimes life is not forgiving.