good feelings can be generated in so many different ways that we ought not let our feelings dictate which religious direction we’re going

forgiveness opened the door to the possibility

We are called as Christians to help people who are suffering, not dismiss their suffering as an illusion and thereby minimize or dismiss it.

Said Philip Yancey, “We can never sink so far that God’s grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.”6

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. C. S. Lewis

Fools hate wisdom, are complacent, bring grief to their parents, lack common sense, pursue schemes, revel in folly, are full of pride, practice deception, refuse to make amends, spurn discipline, scorn advice, and exalt themselves.3

She had been taught that forgiveness was never optional in the Christian faith; it was required by God.

Cheap grace, said German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is . . . forgiveness without requiring repentance . . . [and] absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ living and incarnate.”

‘Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.