"The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

#Forgiveness Quotes #Past Quotes #Names Quotes

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”
“A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.”

Source : "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.”
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
“When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.”

Source : "Talking 'Lost' with Henry Ian Cusick". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.
“I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”
“People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.”

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