HONOR

"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor." 




- George Bernard Shaw

No person was ever honored for what he received. 

Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

- Calvin Coolidge





Who sows virtue reaps honor.

- Leonardo da Vinci

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.” 

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Act well your part, there all the honor lies.” 


- Edgar Lee Masters

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

- Winston Churchill

“To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.” 

- Sarah Arthur

“My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, 

but his code of glowing honor 

will never fail to protect us both 

from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. 

You've got to stand apart from it, too. 

You've got to be different from it.” 

-Jim Butcher

"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."

-Thomas Carlyle  





“Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor must have feet and hands.” 

- Douglas Wilson

"Ability without honor is useless."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero




“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.

"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.” 


- Brandon Sanderson

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.


-Herbert Hoover



"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."


- Abraham Lincoln

"...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor."


- Rachel Vincent

“Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.” 



-Judith Wright

"You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship."


- W. Paul Young 

"You saw we could lose our lives for this child. 

I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family."

- Corrie ten Boom




“It is a good man who stands up for his friends, 

but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.” 



- Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them 

than to have them and not deserve them."



-Mark Twain

“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” 

- Winston Churchill

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, 
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, 
if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise,
 let your mind dwell on these things."

- Phillipians 4:8

Forgiveness

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."


- Oscar Wilde

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"You will find that it is necessary to let things go;

simply for the reason that they are heavy.

So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles."

- C. JoyBell C.

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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous of you. Be happy anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."

- Mother Teresa

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"Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive."

- C.S. Lewis

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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

- Dale Carnegie

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"Forgiving is not forgetting; it's actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. It's a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened."

- Desmond Tutu

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"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."


- Corrie ten Boom

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"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them.

Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more?



'Lord Jesus,' I prayed, 'forgive me and help me to forgive him.... Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....'


And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself."




-Corrie ten Boom (on forgiving a former Nazi who killed her family)

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"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"

- Max Lucado

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"Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat...... 

Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........



Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........


Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......"



- W. Paul Young

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"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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"It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you."

(in reference to Matthew 5)

- Rob Bell

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"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."

- Corrie ten Boom

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"Unforgiveness is like drinking deadly poison and then expecting another person to die."

"Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you.

Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal."

- Joyce Meyer

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"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself."

- Dag Hammarskjöld (Markings)

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"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves.

Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."

- C.S. Lewis

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"Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart."


-Jim Henson

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"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

- Will Smith

HOPE

"Hope isn't a fluttery feeling or a wispy kind of wishful thinking. Hope is something that's been weathered and hardened by the elements and has proven itself genuine. Hope has persevered; hope has suffered; hope has endured the crucible; hope has come through the fire; hope has trudged through the valley and gained the mountain, purified!"

- Bob Sorge, The Fire of Delayed Answers

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"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."



- Martin Luther

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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all."


-Emily Dickenson

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"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."


- Stephen King

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"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
And so today I still have a dream..."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Any area of your life that is without hope is under the influence of a lie.


-Bill Johnson

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"We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small,

awaken it when it is dormant,

confirm it when it is wavering,

strengthen it when it is weak,

and raise it up when it is overthrown."


- John Calvin

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"Though He slay me, I will hope in Him; yet I will argue my ways to His face."

-Job 13:15
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"Sometimes ignorance rings true,

but hope is not in what I know.

Not in me, but in You.

It's in You.

I find peace when I'm confused,

I find hope when I'm let down,

not in me, but in You."

- Jon Foreman, Switchfoot, Legend of Chin

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"Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

-Romans 12:12

Courage

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

-C.S. Lewis

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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;

and when you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

-Victor Hugo

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"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers.

We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

-Ronald Reagan

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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

-George S. Patton

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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

-John F. Kennedy

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"Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

Let all that you do be done with love.

-1 Cor. 16:13, The Bible

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"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

-Thomas Merton

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"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults,

or resolution enough to mend them."

-Benjamin Franklin

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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

-Amelia Earhart

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"Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous.

Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

-Joshua 1:9, The Bible