Regret-Free Living Quotes

“The joy of dropping your heavy load is that it frees you to become the person that God and you—whether or not, at any given time of your life, you know it—most want you to be.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Show that person you love them; don’t just expect them to some-how know it.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“The more responsibility you take for your choices, the less regret they’re likely to cause you.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Because God is love, it’s a pretty safe bet that whatever way God loves people is the way that we should try to love them also.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“There are as many great reasons to regularly pray to God as there are to live and breathe and stay alive.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Fixing a broken relationship is all about loving and giving from a heart filled with God’s compassionate presence.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“The only way to love and give is to do both out of the fullness of God.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Don’t wait to give until you receive; anyone can give something after they’ve first been given something themselves.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Before you can stand up straight before another person, you have to fall on your knees before God.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“you can’t embrace— you can’t empower—the person you want to be in your future until you’ve thoroughly embraced the person you’ve been in your past.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Jesus on the cross stands forever as the greatest possible symbol of love in action.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“highest purpose as humans and followers of Jesus—is to be a conduit of God’s love.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Our faithfulness to Christ is clearly and unmistakably demonstrated by the degree to which we have accepted and granted forgiveness.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Love is the only fuel that can keep a difficult relationship running smoothly and regret-free.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Making peace with someone is not a goal. It’s a journey.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“It would be time for you to start drawing up peace treaties with your former enemies.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“We are never so loving toward others as when we have learned to be loving toward ourselves.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Be honest in everything you do, and insist on honesty from anyone with whom you share a relationship.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“If two people are honest with each other, there is no kind of woe they can’t survive.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Respect is crucial to relational health.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Affection is love shown.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“For we love as God loves us; filled with the love of the Lord, we love others in the only way love ever acts.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up” (Galatians 6:9).”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Living a regret-free life means being honest about everything you did to help create your regrets and honest about how you felt when someone else was hurtful to you.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Being truthful to a degree worthy of God means so much more than simply not lying. It means we take the time to discern what the truth is.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Christ says he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We want to be sure he is with us in everything we do, especially as we’re trying to bring anything like Christ’s healing to a relationship.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“There’s never a better time to be that person than when you’re in a relationship that you want to become a source of peace and productivity rather than anger and regret.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“Words can be the tonic that kills regrets before they have a chance to grow.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns

“The answer is the answer to so many of our questions about how best to act in an emotionally tense situation: Withdraw from the conflict.”
― Stephen Arterburn, Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom From Unhealthy Patterns