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1 " Unforgiveness is a prison. It slams the door on new beginnings and entrenches you in your present pain. It chains the heart and stops it from beating. It suffocates joy and paralyzes your ability to move on. Unforgiveness is the cancer of the soul. It slowly eats away the marrow of your existence and impairs your judgment, your personality and your ability to love again. "
― Michelle McKinney Hammond , Release the Pain, Embrace the Joy: Help for the Hurting Heart
2 " He uses every experience to perfect us into greater vessels bearing fruit for his glory. "
3 " Do something every day to change your attitude—instead of trying to think your way into right acting, act your way into right thinking. Act the person you want to be, and gradually that's the person you will become. "
4 " So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord. "
5 " lack of affirmation from the men in our lives can make us die inside quietly, unable to feel, to respond, to even voice our pain. "