"To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 251), 1895.

Thomas Secker

#Forgiveness Quotes #Christian Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.”
“We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.”
“I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.”
“I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.”
“When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna, or liberation. Such a state is called the function of 'thoughtlessness'. But to refrain from thinking of anything, so that all thoughts are suppressed, is to be Dharma-ridden, and this is an erroneous view.”
“However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.”

Source : James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”
“Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.”
“The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.”

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