SO GOOD QUOTES

The actuality of God’s grace toward sinners not only assures us of our own forgiveness, but is also the condition for the possibility of our forgiving anyone who has harmed us. Only insofar as forgiveness is first received as God’s unimaginable gift can it be offered to another in love. That is to say, only as we receive the actuality of God’s forgiveness do we have the capacity to forgive another who has harmed us.

Bearing the Unbearable: Trauma, Gospel, and Pastoral Care
Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger