“Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!” PrayerSinForgivenessForgivingPens Author:Saadi
“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.” HumansChristianEvilGraceForgivenessPerfectionCorruptionRetribution Author:Thomas Secker
“"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."” IfsThinkingMenLooksHardRememberFatherChristSinEnemyBloodCallingForgivenessAskingForgivingInjuryHeavenlyShedVengeancePardonHeavenly FatherMercy And ForgivenessHard To Forgive Author:Philip Neri
“Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.” StatesIndividualFreedomMoralDemocracyRevolutionWeaknessBasesResistanceChiefsSubmitArbitrary Author:Friedrich Ratzel
“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.” MenWorldHas BeensStatesSeemsFreedomUnitedUnited StatesPotBlack HistoryMeltingMelting PotBlack History Month InspirationalBlack History Inspirational Author:Thurgood Marshall
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.” MenShouldWellsGovernmentPurposeEvilPoliticsUnderstandingBornFreedomLibertyTeachDangerProtectIndependentPrivacyAmendmentsRulersInvasionZealFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyCivil LibertiesBearing ArmsInsidiousLurkingRights And FreedomsGuardingEncroachmentLiberty And JusticePrice Of FreedomBeneficenceInvasion Of PrivacyFourth AmendmentSecurity And FreedomRulershipEvil GovernmentConflicting OpinionsRepelling Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.” MenFreedomMarkEach DayInherentRecognizingCompulsionFree Man Book:Men Wanted! Source: Men Wanted!
“We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.” MayDoeLyingFutureIdealsLooking To The Future Author:Ezra Hall Gillett
“First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.” FirstsHeartIdeasCharacterHouseQualityClassKindnessCarClothesGraduationFirst ClassClothes You Wear Author:Cory Booker