A prayer - "Father, we celebrate Your gracious and lavish forgiveness. Thank You for the peace and freedom it brighs us as we enjoy a family relationship with You." Our Daily Bread
"Don't take the bait. Take the high ground; don't respond to the fusillade." James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 - June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States. (1845–49).
"An apology is a good way to have the last word." Dell Crossword Puzzles
". . . everybody’s tryin’ to swallow somethin’ that won’t go down." Vance Havner as stated in In the Company of Others by Jan Karon
"Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me." Corrie Ten Boom - Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892[1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.
"I could crawl under a snake’s belly wearing a top hat." Absalom Greer, a character in Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
"If a man murders you without provocation, your soul bears no burden of the wrong; but all the angels of the universe will weep for the misguided man who committed the murder." 20th USA President James A. Garfield
"If you forgive them, it doesn't mean they get away with what they did . . . it just means that you don't have to think about it all the time. You can't do anything anyway, except be mad. See? You just give 'em to God. Then you can be happy." Danny Gilbert, a character in The Heart Mender by Andy Andrews
"He had not let sleeping dogs lie, he had roused them up and they had gone baying." Father Timothy Kavanagh in Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good by Jan Karon
"Linger too long in the stench of hurt and you'll smell like the toxin you despise." Max Lucado (born January 11, 1955) is a best-selling Christian author and writer and preacher at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. This quote is from in the book Facing Your Giants. (Shared by ODS Bug, Sarah)
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit." Peter Ustinov; Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, (16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was an English actor, writer and dramatist.
"My dog and cat have taught me a great lesson in life - learn to shed a lot!" Susan Scott, (which Susan Scott?)
"My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever." Actress Della Reese, July 6, 1931), is an American singer, actress, game show panelist of the 1970s, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed." Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1870 – June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant
" 'Send for stretchers at once for these two men.' As the aidmen came up, Grant remounted, only to notice the stretcher bearers ignored the Southern soldier. 'Take the Confederate too,' he ordered, 'the war is over between them.' " This is an excerpt from Grant by Jean Edward Smith. This entire entry was written by the author who was quoting Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) who was an American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. During the American Civil War, General Grant, with President Abraham Lincoln, led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy.
"Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you." Austin O'Malley (1858 - 1932), physicist
"Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in." Farmer's Almanac
"The hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. Louis Zamperini - Louis Silvie Zamperini (January 26, 1917 – July 2, 2014) was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000 m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process. Zamperini was commissioned in the United States Army Air Forces as a lieutenant. He served as a bombardier on B-24 Liberators in the Pacific. On a search and rescue mission, his plane experienced mechanical difficulties and crashed into the ocean. After drifting at sea on a life raft for 47 days, with two other crewmates, Zamperini landed on the then Japanese Marshall Islands and was captured. He was taken to a total of four different prisoner-of-war camps in Japan, where he was tortured and beaten by Japanese military personnel—specifically including Mutsuhiro Watanabe—because of Zamperini's status as a famous Olympic runner. He was later taken to a new prison camp at a coal factory, and after much hardship, he was finally released. Following the war he initially struggled to overcome his ordeal, afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism. He later became a Christian evangelist with a strong belief in forgiveness. From 1952 onwards, he devoted himself to at-risk youth. Zamperini is the subject of three biographical films: Unbroken (2014), its sequel Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018), and Captured by Grace (2015).
"There will be nothing of the kind. The surrender is now a fact. We have the fort, the men, the guns. Why should we go through vain forms and mortify and injure the spirit of brave men, who, after all, are our own countrymen." Ulysses S. Grant had been asked when the official ceremony would be held to parade the captured rebels, stack their weapons and have their standard lowered. Ulysses S. Grant(born; Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 was an American soldier, politician, and international statesman who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. During the American Civil War, General Grant, with President Abraham Lincoln, led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy.
"To forgive wrongs darker than weather or night . . .
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates . . .
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley from Prometheus Unbound (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language.
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive." Alan Paton - (1903–88), South African writer and politician; full name Alan Stewart Paton. He is best known for his novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a passionate indictment of the apartheid system
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive . . . to bind up the nation's wounds." Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy. This statement was made in Lincoln's Second Inaugural, March 4, 1865.
"Without forgiveness life is governed by . . . an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." Roberto Assagiol, (27 February 1888 – August 1974) was an Italian psychiatrist and pioneer in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology (Shared by ODS Bug, Sarah)
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