“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

—  Sheri Reynolds, book The Rapture of Canaan

Source: The Rapture of Canaan

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