When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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