"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
-George MacDonald
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
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"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
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"Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge."
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"And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity."
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"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."
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"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."
-John Rowland
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