Quotes about Letting go

God had told the survivors of Sodom and Gomorrah not to look back after they'd been rescued from death and destruction, and if Jo's family continued to gaze into the past, they were going to become stuck in place like pillars of salt, too.

What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs?

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

At some point we must stop: 1. Replaying what happened over and over. 2. Taking what was actually terrible in the past and tricking ourselves into thinking it was better than it was. 3. Imagining the ways things should be so much that we can't acknowledge what is.

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

Bitterness, resentment, and anger have no place in a heart as beautiful as yours.

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

simple but very profound truth, "How can you let God down when you weren't ever holding Him up?

We can't go ahead with God to new and exciting places if we're spending too much time looking back. We must leave our past behind, draw a line in the sand, and determine to proceed forward with God.

Just because we extend forgiveness doesn't mean we keep that person in our close-knit circle.

Isaiah 43:18—19 reminds us, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

I didn't want to open up myself to yet another possible complicated disappointment. I reasoned, Walk away early so you don't have to suffer the pain of them falling away later. Some call that protecting yourself. But I knew in my case it was called letting past hurts hurt me all over again.