“Jesus saith unto him, ‘I say not unto thee, until seven times; but until seventy times seven.’”
S. MATT. xviii. 21
“Is it fair always to forget all the good or kindness shown to us by those with whom we live, for the sake of one little pain they may have caused us, and which, most likely, was quite unintentional on their part?”
From Gold Dust
“For every vexation caused by people, the great balm is love – charity.”
“Our own imperfection makes us hasty to rebuke the imperfect; and it is a very subtle and all-permeating self-love which cannot forgive the self-love of others. The stronger it is, the more critical will the censor be; there is nothing so irritating to a proud self-willed mind as the self-will of a neighbour; and another man’s pasion seems intolerably ridiculous, unbearable to a man who is given up to his own, But he who is full of the Love of God, on the contrary, is full of forbearance, consideration, and indulgence.”
FÉNÉLON
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