"Every day is a chance to start over, my friend." ~~Monica, Jacob's Ladder

"You can't change who you were. But you can change who you are. And today, you start over. Right now. Hand it over to God. Leave it all right here and walk away." ~~Monica, Out of the Darkness

"It's time for forgiveness. Forgive. Be forgiven. And God will fill you with a peace beyond all understanding." ~~Tess, Portrait of Mrs. Campbell

"Angels don't tell you what you should have done. We're here to tell you that God loves you. He wants to deal with what you can do right now. Because now is all you can change." ~~Andrew, Birthmarks

"You've had setbacks, and you'll have others. It's not important how many times you've fallen. It's how many times you let God pick you up that matters." ~~Monica, The Homecoming Part One

"You must accept responsibility for the choices you made. Only then can you fully receive the forgiveness your heart needs to heal." ~~???

"When people don't like something about themselves, they paint over it so no one else can see it... Our job is to expose their true colours to the light.." ~~Tess

"'If' is the saddest word in the history of language... you hold onto that "if" long enough, it can eat a hole right into your heart." ~~Tess, Lost and Found

"God isn't taking something away from you. God is giving you something. It's a gift. The chance to start over. God is there to mend your heart and heal your soul, but you have to let Him." ~~Monica, Out of the Darkness

"You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them." ~~Monica

"Sometimes when God closes a door, He opens a tent flap." ~~Tess

"Sometimes the help we need is not the help we want. **Do you know why God put people's faces on the front of their bodies?** Faces are in the front so people can see where they're going, not where they've been. We have to go forward, not backward." ~~Monica, Out of the Darkness, selection in ** first spoken by Al

"Look I'll spell it out for you: We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it. So, get over it." ~~Al, Out of the Darkness

"God loves you. And He knows the secrets of your heart. The horrors that you've endured you cannot blame Him for. You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it." ~~Claire, Jacob's Ladder

"Shame brings you down. But true humility will only lift you higher." ~~Tess,  There, But for the Grace of God

"I do know that no mistake you've ever made is greater than God's power to fix it." ~~Monica, Operation Smile

"And you have something else, too. You have a second chance. God loves you so much. He wants you to take only what you need into the new century and leave what you don't in the old one. Take the good memories. Take the faithfulness of your Heavenly Father and share it with someone who loves you. For now that you know the truth you mustn't be afraid of love anymore. Only God can decide what's too late. And you, honey, are right on time!" ~~Monica, Millennium

"What do they dream about?"
"Who?"
"Humans, what do they dream about?"
"Being awake."
"I heard they try to fix in dreams what went wrong in their awakeness."
"Awakeness?"
"You know what I mean."
"I think when they're dreaming that's the only time people are really completely honest with themselves.”
"That's why they hardly ever remember them." ~~Monica and Andrew, Millennium

"But all you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And it is this moment, right now, when you can choose to make everything new." ~~Monica, Fallen Angela

"It's amazing all the different ways they come up with to compete with each other. As if winning a game is going to fix whatever is wrong in their lives. And in the end, it never really does." ~~Andrew, The Perfect Game (I)

"And I've been wondering all night why He chose this place, this night. And I've been wondering why He wanted us to play a game before we could do our work. I think it's because there's such an interesting lesson to be learned from bowling: You always get a second chance. It doesn't matter how you throw the ball--right down the middle, right in the gutter--you always get a second chance to make it right." ~~Monica, The Perfect Game (I)

"But God wants you to live, and He wants you to live knowing the truth. Nothing you can ever do will change what you have done. But with God's help you can change your life. That's all that you can do now--that's the best that you can do now. You will always remember what you did that day. And then you will remember what God did THIS day. Almighty God, who has the power and the right to punish you has shown you mercy. He has forgiven you!
Why? Because you are His child too, and He loves you!" ~~Monica, True Confessions

"How can He blame you for being human when He made you human?" ~~ Monica, The Driver

"You can welcome death with respect and wonder, or fight it with fear and regret.  Dying with regret, I've learned, is the worst of all." ~~ Andrew, Til We Meet Again

"Maybe I made a mistake, but God is using it to make something wonderful out of this.  Maybe I came here by mistake, but now He's given me a new purpose." ~~ Monica, Jacob's Ladder

"Oh, excuse me.  If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself?  You think you know better than God?" ~~ Al, Out of the Darkness

"God has given you a second chance.  Take it." ~~Andrew, Into the Light

"This is not a punishment.  This is a lesson.  We all learn them because God is good enough to teach them." ~~ Sam, Groundrush

"God is faithful.  He will stick with you even when you won't.  He will forgive you even when you can't.  His mercies are brand new every morning.  This morning, He wants to give this day to you, and all the rest of your days, too.  All you have to do is say yes." ~~Monica, The Homecoming, Part I

"His mercy lasts a lot longer than any trouble you're in." ~~Tess, Clipped Wings

"He can take anything that's broken and make it whole but you have to give Him the pieces.  And because He is the Creator, He knows how all the pieces fit together." ~~Monica, Labor of Love

“Every single human being wakes up every single morning not knowing whether they’re going to live or die that day.” ~~Andrew, The Pact

“People make mistakes and angels sometimes make mistakes but God doesn’t make mistakes.” ~~Andrew, My Dinner with Andrew

"You would be amazed at how much God loves to put back together that which is impossibly broken." ~~Andrew, Deconstructing Harry

"Sometimes the most painful words are those that are not spoken." ~~Monica, Cry and You Cry Alone

"God will show you more mercy than you show yourself." ~~Tess, Vengeance is Mine, Part II

"There's a whole bunch of people out there with their 'if onlys.'  Say good bye to yours.  Step into the future." ~~Tess, Vengeance is Mine, Part II

"The 'what ifs' and 'if onlys' will only stop you from healing.  Don't ask those questions." ~~Monica, The Peacemaker

"His mercy is brand new every morning... It's good to wake up and remember things like that, ya know?  Every morning a new start." ~~Sam, Fool for Love

"This moment is the only one that matters right now."  ~~Monica, Made in the U.S.A.

"You've made bad decisions in your life but God is offering you another chance." ~~Monica, Full Circle

"The lost can be found again." ~~Monica, The Occupant

"God never gives up on His children." ~~Monica, The Occupant

"Dreams are fragile and visions can dim if you don't hold them in a safe place in your heart." ~~Monica, Restoration

"You may have let Him down, but He will NEVER let you down!" ~~Monica, Restoration

"God loves you.  He knows everything and He still loves you." ~~Andrew, The Empty Chair

"He loves you.  Because you are *His* child.  Cause even though there's rules, there's also grace." ~~Rafael, Mi Familia

"There can be no 'buts' when you ask for forgiveness, baby.  No conditions." ~~Tess, Visions of Thy Father

"God loves you.  And if you ask Him, He'll forgive you for everything that brought you to this place." ~~Ronald, Band of Angels

"He loves you so much.  You're still His child, in spite of everything." ~~Monica, Band of Angels

"He took your mistakes and made something new and good out of them." ~~Tess, Shallow Water I

"He wants you to know that He forgives you and that He loves you more than you could ever imagine.  He wants so much to be a source of strength for you." ~~Monica, Heaven's Portal

"You can struggle and fight to control every storm, every wave, to protect every detail in your world but you can't.  If you try to, your life will pass you by and all you'll have left is regret that you lived your life in fear." ~~Monica, Ship-in-a-Bottle

"If you can let God give your life meaning now then it was never, ever wasted." ~~Monica, The Blue Angel

"Everything follows you.  Your joy and pain, your triumphs and transgressions, your choices.  When the past catches up with you, angels follow, too." ~~Monica, Secrets and Lies

"God didn't send me here to condemn you." ~~Monica, Secrets and Lies 

"It's never too late to stand before the throne of God and seek His mercy and ask Him to do something powerful in your life." ~~Monica, The Princeless Bride

"You're not a mistake.  God doesn't make mistakes." ~~Monica, Hello, I Love You

"It's never too late to tell someone what you feel in your heart." ~~Tess, The Bells of St. Peter's

"No!  No.  You haven't lost your soul.  You've just lost your way and God can show you the way back if you let Him." ~~Andrew, The Sixteenth Minute

"God knows that you're not perfect... He made you that way.  But He will always forgive us if we ask for it." ~~Monica, Two Sides to Every Angel

"God is here and He loves us in spite of all the mistakes.  And He has a plan for us all." ~~Gloria, Two Sides to Every Angel

"When people lose their way, God is always waitin' to show them the way back." ~~Monica, A Feather on the Breath of God

"Yes, you've made mistakes.  But you've always taken responsibility for them and worked hard to overcome them.  And God wants you to know He's very proud of you." ~~Monica, Bring on the Rain

"God loves you... Mistakes and all!" ~~Monica, Bring on the Rain

"Things happen in this world... and we sometimes aren't given the answers that we would like to have.  But we are always given the time with the people we love before it's too late.  Please... don't throw your time away." ~~Monica, Remembering Me, Part I

"You can't hide anything from the One who knows you the best, the One who created you.  God was with you on those nights when you couldn't stop crying.  And He was with you on those mornings when you couldn't face yourself in the mirror.  He forgave you when you couldn't forgive yourself.  He loves you and He forgives you now." ~~Monica, Private Eyes

"We all make mistakes but that doesn't mean we're failures.  It means we have work to do." ~~Fr. Madden, The Root of All Evil

"It's never too late if it's the right thing to do." ~~Tess, At the End of the Aisle

"Get the old things behind you and move on.  You'll feel better about it." ~~Tess, Vengeance is Mine (aka Saving Grace) Part I

"Angels do fail.  And humans fail but God does not fail." ~~Sam, Beautiful Dreamer

"God wants you to know that no matter what you've done, He loves you." ~~Monica, The Man Upstairs


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