#George Herbert "Virtue"

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"Though the whole world turn to coal"—George Herbert's "Virtue"

On the feast day of priest/poet George Herbert, one of his beautifully crafted poems takes us through death into life. #poetry

“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like season’d timber, never gives …” Today is the feast day of George Herbert (1593-1633), one of my favorite poets. It is fitting that we remember him at the beginning of Lent, for his poems are imbued with the season’s themes of repentance and renewal. He was a student of what the Book of Common Prayer calls our “unruly wills and affections,” and could be…

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"Vertue" by George Herbert

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HOMILY for 2nd Sun after Pentecost (Dominican rite)

1 Jn 3:13-18; Luke 14:16-24

During this Octave of Corpus Christi, today’s Gospel, known as the parable of the Great Banquet, is read. This is fitting. For the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in which the Most Blessed Sacrament is given to Man, is that Great Banquet of the Lord. The Mass is, as St Thomas Aquinas says, the sacrum convivium, the Sacred Banquet, in which we receive the Lord, remember his Passion, and have a promise of future glory in heaven, a promise of our place at the heavenly banquet spoken of in today’s parable.

Hence Pope Urban IV said in 1264 when he instituted the feast of Corpus Christi: “Therefore [Christ] gave himself as nourishment, so that, since Man fell by means of the food of the death-giving tree; Man is raised up by means of the food of the life-giving tree [i.e., the Cross]. Eating wounded us, and eating healed us. Thus the Saviour says, ‘My Flesh is real food.’ This bread is taken but truly not consumed, because it is not transformed into the eater. Rather, if it is worthily received, the recipient is conformed to it.” This conforming of the recipient, the guest at the Banquet, so that he becomes like Christ the Host is a work of God’s grace. It is a work of God’s mercy. It is a work of God’s saving love.

The parable therefore stresses the expansiveness of God’s love, God’s mercy, and God’s grace: ultimately, all Mankind has been invited to the Banquet, and so to taste the goodness of God; to receive the salvation that comes from the Passion of Christ; to receive the grace that conforms us to Jesus and makes us like him in friendship and in charity. Truly, this is the Banquet that makes us into friends of God and into better lovers of one another so that, as St John says in the epistle, we will “love [not merely] in word or speech but in deed and in truth.” (1 Jn 3:18)

For at this Banquet, that is to say, in the Holy Mass, we have the “special and outstanding memorial of [Christ’s] love” for all peoples. In the Mass, we behold and we receive the One who shows us the costliness of love. For in this sacred Banquet, Christ’s Passion and Death on the Cross is remembered. In this great Sacrament, God demonstrates his love for all peoples. For, as St Paul says, “while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” (Rom 5:8) Hence Christ has given his all for all, even for the unworthy. This is the mystical meaning of today’s parable, for this great Banquet, which is symbolic of the richness and endless depths of God’s love and friendship is ultimately for all peoples, even sinners.

Contrary to some of the ideas current at the time of Christ, then, Jesus stresses that the Messianic Banquet of heaven is open not only to the Jewish nation, who would come to reject him and insult him – for this is what the invited guests in the parable did – but God’s grace is now extended also the Gentiles. The Gentiles are those who, in the symbolism of the parable, are the “poor and maimed and blind and lame” because the Gentile nations could be said to be handicapped with regard to salvation because they were not numbered among God’s Chosen People. However, Christ overturns this exclusive notion, and he teaches, as the prophet Isaiah did, that God’s salvation is for Jews and Gentiles alike; God’s grace is freely given to all. And finally, there is a third group of people who are mentioned in the parable – those “at the highways and hedges” who are “compelled” to come to the Banquet. Who are these? It would be wrong to think that this verse gives us justification to force people to become Catholics and to come to the Mass, of course. For there can be no compulsion in love. Rather, this part of the parable refers to those who are ostracised and live outside of the towns, those who are reluctant to come because they are afraid, because they feel unworthy, because they feel they must earn God’s love.

Sin, especially the ones we are most ashamed of, isolates us and we are, so to speak, kept outside of town. The tactic of Satan, with regard to sin, is to divide and conquer us. Therefore, the Saviour comes to gather us into friendship with him and with one another; Christ’s grace frees us from the isolation of sin and calls us into a communion of love with God and our fellow men and women. The word Church, indeed, comes from the Greek ‘ekklesia’, meaning the assembly, the gathering, the people called to come together. We, who are all sinners, all unworthy of God’s love and mercy, have nevertheless been called together, compelled, even, to sit at God’s holy table. We have been made worthy by his grace, because God, in his love and mercy, has called us; he has chosen us, and he now wills to give himself to us. Awareness of our universal unworthiness as sinners and of our common need for God’s grace and mercy is surely the basis for any equality that we might hope for in our societies. Clearly, justice and equality among us will always be lacking if we are not steeped in God’s life-giving love as a response to our fundamental death-deserving lack of virtue.

The poet George Herbert expresses this really well in his poem called Love (III), which I quote in full:

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack'd anything.

“A guest,” I answer'd, “worthy to be here”; Love said, “You shall be he.” “I, the unkind, the ungrateful? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee.” Love took my hand and smiling did reply, “Who made the eyes but I?”

“Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame Go where it doth deserve.” “And know you not,” says Love, "who bore the blame?” “My dear, then I will serve.” “You must sit down,” says Love, "and taste my meat.” So I did sit and eat.

In this sacred Banquet, therefore, in the Holy Mass, we have gathered together – when not prevented by our concrete circumstances – not because we deserve it, nor because we have any right to it, but we are present, here and now, entirely by God’s grace. We are called together so that we can taste the Love of God. The Eucharist, therefore, is called the Sacrament of Charity because it is the love of God sacramentally present and visible for us, and it also makes us into Lovers like God – we are conformed to the Eucharist, conformed to Christ, as Pope Urban IV said. Thus, St John says in today’s epistle: “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?” (1 Jn 3:16-17) Pope Benedict XVI called this “Eucharistic consistency”, meaning that if we receive the Eucharist, and indeed, even if we cannot at this time but we long for the Eucharist, then we long, ultimately, not merely for the Sacrament but for the res, the reality of this Sacrament, namely Christ and union with him through charity. We must long, therefore, for Charity itself and live according to that Christ-like love.

In today’s epistle St John spells out what this entails. He says: “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” (1 Jn 3:14-15) Therefore, says the apostle, “let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.” (1 Jn 3:18)

This apostolic teaching on Eucharistic consistency is found in St Paul’s letters too. His injunction in 1 Corinthians 11 is read each year on the feast of Corpus Christi: “Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.” (vv28-29) These verses have often been thought to refer to the necessity of belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, or to the necessity of refraining from Holy Communion if one is in a state of mortal sin lest one “eats and drinks judgment” upon oneself. Both these positions are absolutely true, and are necessary with regard to the Eucharist. However, the Liturgy places today’s epistle within the Octave of Corpus Christi so that we can providentially read St Paul’s teaching in the light of St John’s instruction. If you look at the context of 1 Corinthians 11, St Paul isn’t teaching about the Eucharistic doctrine of transubstantiation. Rather, he’s scolding the Corinthian Christians for their lack of Eucharistic consistency. In particular, he is concerned about how the Christian community treats one another and talks about one another, and how we behave together.

St Paul says: “as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.” (1 Cor 11:26) In other words, the Eucharist is a proclamation of God’s love, demonstrated for all on the Cross. The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Charity. When we eat and drink of the Blessed Sacrament, therefore, St Paul warns us to “examine himself… for any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.” (1 Cor 11:28, 29) Recall that St Paul also refers to the whole Church as the mystical Body of Christ. Therefore, he says that before you receive the Sacrament of Charity, examine your conscience: Do I love one another as Christ has commanded me to? Do I have charity and indeed, reverence, for the whole Christian people, the Body of Christ; for the clergy and laity, even those with whom I disagree and who I think are sorely mistaken? Do I remember that God has called the ostracised and unworthy to his Great Banquet, and so I am to show the same generosity, mercy, and love? These questions, it seems to me, help us to “discern the body of the Lord” as St Paul puts it. They help us to avoid profaning the Eucharist through our lack of love for our fellow Christians when we approach the Sacrament. For otherwise, if we receive the Eucharist without love “in deed and in truth”, then, St Paul warns us, we risk coming “together to be condemned”! (1 Cor 11:33)

This great Sacrament of the Mass, therefore, is the great Sacrifice of God’s love for us sinners. Through it, by his grace and mercy, God conforms us to Christ who is Love incarnate. Through it, we are made to become Lovers of God and lovers of our fellow men and women, of our fellow Christians. As the Lord says: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Jn 13:35) So, let us long for Communion in a holy way, with charity. Let us thus receive the Eucharist worthily for, as Pope Urban IV said, “if it is worthily received, the recipient is conformed to it.” And, therefore, let us be transformed by charity so that all peoples will look at what we say and what we do – in our various interactions, particularly on social media right now – and let them hence know that we are Christ’s disciples, students of Love himself. And if we can’t be charitable online, it’s probably best to log off and spend more time with the Lord in prayer. For “you must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat: So I did sit and eat.”

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Confidence, courage, friendship quotes 3-23-2018

confidence quotes

Friedrich Von Sachsen

Confidence awakens confidence.

Daniel Maher

Confidence is courage at ease.

Marcus Garvey

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Boiste 

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

George Herbert

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Vincent Lombardi 

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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Courage quotes

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.  ~Samuel Johnson  (Thanks, Frank Lynch)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.  ~Ambrose Redmoon

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day you either see a scar or courage.  Where you dwell will define your struggle.  ~Dodinsky, 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  ~Winston Churchill

Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~Dan Rather

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.  ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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Friendship quotes

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels

Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. ~Robert Brault, 

Friendship isn’t a big thing — it’s a million little things. ~Author Unknown

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. ~Arnold Glasow

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit

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It is perfectly true that all white things have whiteness in them, for that is only saying, in another form of words, that all white things are white; but since it is true that real things possess whiteness, whiteness is real. It is a real which only exists by virtue of an act of thought knowing it, but that thought is not an arbitrary or accidental one dependent on any idiosyncrasies, but one which will hold in the final opinion.

C.S. Peirce, “The Works of George Berkeley,” The North American Review, CXIII (1871), as quoted by Herbert Schneider in A History of American Philosophy

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88 Forgiveness Quotes on Life, Love, and Friendship

These forgiveness quotes will help you let go of the past and not allow anger to poison your heart.

Forgiveness is a difficult emotion for so many of us. Due to too much hate and anger inside us, we find it almost impossible in some situations to let go of the past, or move on from the wrongs that others have done to us.

However, it is through forgiving and letting go of those perceived injustices that truly allows us to be free.

Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful forgiveness quotes, forgiveness sayings, and forgiveness proverbs on how we can start that process.

Forgiveness Quotes About Life

1.) “Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” ― Isaac Friedmann

2.) “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

3.) “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

4.) “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” ― Katherine Ponder

5.) “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6.) “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” ― Louis B. Smedes

7.) “Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Forgive Yourself Quotes

8.) “Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.” ― Harriet Nelson

9.) “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” ― C.R. Strahan

10.) “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” ― C.S. Lewis

11.) “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.” ― Anne Lamott

12.) “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

13.) “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” ― Bryant H. McGill

14.) “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.” ― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

15.) “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” ― Norman Cousins

16.) “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” ― Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds

17.) “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, every day, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is like.” ― C. JoyBell C.

Forgiveness Quotes on Friendship

18.) “Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” ― Roberto Assagioli

19.) “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott

20.) “Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

21.) “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ― Robert Quillen

22.) “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.” ― Robert Jordan

23.) “I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.” ― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

24.) “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” ― Hannah Arendt

25.) “Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.” ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

Forgiveness Quotes on Love

26.) “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.” ― George Herbert

27.) “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” ― Nelson Mandela

28.) “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” ― Emma Goldman

29.) “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.”

30.) “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” ― Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

31.) “Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Anonymous

32.) “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

33.) “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” ― Indira Gandhi

34.) “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

35.) “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you too.” ― Will Smith

More Forgiveness Quotes on Life

36.) “If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.” ― Robert Brault

37.) “A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.” ― William Arthur Ward

38.) “People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.”

39.) “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

40.) “Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me.” ― Sara Paddison

41.) “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

42.) “Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” ― Alice Duer Miller

43.) “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” ― Marianne Williamson

44.) “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.” ― Alison Croggon

Quotes on Forgiving Others

45.) “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ― William Blake

46.) “I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.” ― Deb Caletti

47.) “The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

48.) “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ― G.K. Chesterton

49.) “Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” ― Marlene Dietrich

50.) “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown

51.) “As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.” ― Isabelle Holland

52.) “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ― Abraham Lincoln

53.) “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one’s self. To mind one’s own business. Not to want to manage other people’s affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one’s dignity. To choose always the hardest.” ― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

54.) “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ― Paul Boese

Forgiveness Quotes for Lovers

55.) “I’m sorry about yesterday,” she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. “Yesterday happens.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

56.) “Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.”

57.) “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen

58.) “Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” ― George MacDonald

59.) “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” ― Corrie ten Boom

60.) “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” ― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

61.) “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott

62.) “People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!” ― C. JoyBell C.

63.) “If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.” ― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

Quotes about Forgiveness in Life

64.) “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” ― William Arthur Ward

65.) “The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

66.) “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” ― Thomas Szasz

67.) “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” ― Louis B. Smedes

68.) “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” ― Ellen Goodman

69.) “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

70.) “Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.” ― Mason Cooley

71.) “Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Quotes about Forgiveness in Friendship

72.) “If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.”

73.) “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” ― Marvin J. Ashton

74.) “We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” ― Martha Kilpatrick

75.) “This is one of my favorites: “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” ― Oprah Winfrey

76.) “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.” ― Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

77.) “Only the brave know how to forgive. … A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.” – Laurence Sterne

78.) “What I cannot love, I overlook.” ― Anaïs Nin

79.) “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde

Quotes about Forgiveness with Love

80.) “Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.” ― Charlaine Harris

81.) “If you do well, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do well anyway.”

82.) “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” ― Nelson Mandela

83.) “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” ― Robert Muller

84.) “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

85.) “A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.” ― Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

86.) “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

87.) “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

88.) “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ― C. JoyBell C.

Did you enjoy these forgiveness quotes

Now that you know how to go about feeling and showing true forgiveness, the weight can be lifted off of you, and the life you had imagined for yourself lies in front of you…grudge free.

Which quotes about forgiveness were your favorite? What other forgiveness quotes would you add to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Jeb Bush and James Baker write in a Post Op-Ed: "We never met a man as remarkable as George H.W. Bush — and we never will again"

We never met a man as remarkable as George H.W. Bush — and we never will again

By Jeb Bush, James A. Baker III/Washington Post/December 4, 2018 at 5:03 PM/POSTED December 4,2018

Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, is the son of President George H.W. Bush. James A. Baker III served as White House chief of staff and secretary of state in the Bush administration.

The two us of never met a man as remarkable as George Herbert Walker Bush. We never will again. As both public figure and private individual, he set a standard of excellence astonishing in its scope.

As a leader, he deftly guidedthe world through a peaceful ending to the Cold War after it had stood on the brink of nuclear destruction for four decades. He did so with the wisdom of a man well-schooled in foreign affairs who selflessly put his country above himself and partisan politics. The world — enemies and allies alike — respected him as a leader of modest demeanor but steely resolve. He was proud of our nation’s ideals and pragmatic in advancing our interests. Above all, he understood our country’s unique place in world affairs and nurtured international institutions and coalitions that supported it.

As a politician, George H.W. Bush bridged partisan divides and built consensus for far-ranging laws that continue to help our citizens today. The Americans With Disabilities Act and legislation that largely ended acid rain are just two examples. He remains the model for the shrinking band of bipartisan officials who represent the responsible middle of our polity, where deals are struck that last longer than a presidential term.

As a public servant, he first answered the call of duty in World War II, flying 58 combat missions and being shot down over the Pacific. After military service, he accepted positions of increasing responsibility on behalf of his country, as U.N. ambassador, ambassador to China, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and vice president. He daily followed the mantra prescribed by John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

As a friend, George H.W. Bush was without peer, always there in good times and bad. When Jim Baker’s first wife died of cancer at 38, George and Barbara Bush helped pull their friend out of despair. He routinely quoted the verse of William Butler Yeats: “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” Those words were more than poetry to him. They were a way of life.

And as a husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, he savored the responsibilities and joys of family. After being elected vice president, he said his greatest accomplishment was the fact that his kids still enjoyed coming home. They cherished those moments together because Dad or Gampy, as he was called, dispensed love rather than orders. The most important lessons for his family were already manifest in the exemplary life that he and Barbara lived during their 73 years together.

George H.W. Bush was a fierce competitor — in sports, in politics and in life. His kindness and civility cloaked a competitiveness that inspired his friend and son. He wouldn’t have been as successful without it.

At the same time, he also saw the good in people, even his adversaries, and hope in the face of adversity. “No problem of human making,” he once said, “is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.” We need similar optimism today, at a time when cooperative problem solving too often gives way to a rancorous blame game.

George H.W. Bush lived a life of astonishing fullness as leader, politician, public servant, hero, friend and family man. He did almost everything a person could do in their lifetime — including jumping from an airplane at age 90. And he excelled at most.

He reached the pinnacle of power by living the virtues that make for a good Boy Scout: loyalty, trustworthiness, humility, reverence.

In today’s cynical world, such concepts may seem old-fashioned to some and easy to dismiss. But the cynics are wrong. They are not old-fashioned. They are time-tested. More than 2,300 years ago, Aristotle believed that the virtues of prudence, temperance, courage and justice were vital to mankind. George H.W. Bush embodied them all. And he made the world a better place because of his adherence to them.

George H.W. Bush was a wonderful human being who possessed a strong faith in God and believed there is greatness in each of us. The occasion of his passing should serve as a reminder that we can — by living life to the fullest, keeping our eye on the common good and working together — build a more perfect union here at home and a more peaceful world abroad.

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Kindness quotes I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. -Anne Herbert No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. -Charles Dickens A spark of kindness starts a fire of love. Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. -James M. Barrie Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. -C. Neil Strait Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain -------- Patience quotes Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.  ~Lord Chesterfield Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.  ~Ambrose Bierce You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.  ~George-Louis de Buffon Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.--Bantu proverb Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.--Charles Caleb Colton Patience will achieve more than force.--Edmund Burke --------

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Quotes for Saturday March 11,2017

Love quotes If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.--Bob Hope If you judge people, you have no time to love them.--Mother Teresa If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.--A. A. Milne If you love something, set it free. If it returns, it's yours forever. If it doesn't it was never your to begin with.--Anonymous ILove carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.--John Cotton Jr. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.--Karl Menninger Love does not consist of gazing at one another, but in looking outward in the same direction.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like brick; re-made all the time, made new.--Ursala K. LeGuin Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.--Franklin P. Jones ========================================================== Confidence quotes Friedrich Von Sachsen Confidence awakens confidence. Daniel Maher Confidence is courage at ease. Marcus Garvey If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Boiste  One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. George Herbert Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. Vincent Lombardi  Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ============================================================ Friendship quotes A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.--Anonymous A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't.--Bern Williams A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.--Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.--C. S. Lewis =========================================================== Faith quotes Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.--Sherwood Eddy Faith is spiritualized imagination.--Henry Ward Beecher Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.--Martin Luther King, Jr. Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.--C.S. Lewis =========================================================== Kindness quotes As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.--Katherine Francke Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.--Plato Kindness is the insignia of a loving heart.--Anonymous Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.--Mark Twain Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.--Robert Ingersoll Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.--Isaac Bashevis Singer