Hannah More Giving Quotations

People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little....

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.