Marie Lu Quotes

Love heals scars love left

When an injustice happens, we want to be vindicated. People feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong. If we're honest, we'll admit that we usually want the person who hurt us to pay for what they did. We can't get past this until we get the revelation that only God can pay us back. He is our Vindicator - He will heal and restore us if we will trust Him and forgive our enemies as He has told us to do.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

Time cancels young pain.