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

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

Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

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.

Richard Niebuhr called ‘a God without wrath who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.’ ”22

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

When I’m stuck in shame, that’s me taking back on myself what Jesus took on himself.

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