"There is no use in talking as..." - Quote by C S Lewis
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
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“A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.”
“Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.”
“and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.”
More on Forgiveness
“South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.”
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
“Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.”
More on Difficulty
“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”
“Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.”
“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”