"Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement."

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Source : Horace Bushnell, Henry Barrett Learned (1910). “Spirit in Man: Sermons and Selections”

Horace Bushnell

#Forgiveness Quotes #Men Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.”
“Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.”
“"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."”
“The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.”
“There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.”
“The moment we definitely commit ourselves, Providence moves, too.”
“I don't want to go to the future. I'm scared of the future!”

Source : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.
“When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.”

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