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Abounding Grace will make you think. It will make you laugh. It will bring you a new appreciation of your existence. And, in the end, it will give you a great gift: the capacity to perceive as gifts your own virtues and the other blessings of your life.
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But it proved to be much more than just the usual collection of great quotes, or words of wisdom to look at once in a while, or copy onto websites and into newsletters. "Virtue" when served up by M. Scott Peck goes beyond conventional, dogmatic wisdom that sees goodness as something to be applied externally, and medicinally.
Peck thoughtfully reflects on what virtue is, what it means to individuals, how it emerges in each of us, from deep within. Before each section of quotes from a variety of people from different cultures, times, and beliefs, he offers his own reflections and experiences (on light purple paper, so you can easily see where each section begins) about the topic.
We love this book because it gives us all those favorite quotes, and some delicious food for thought. For the M. Scott Peck fan (The Road Less Traveled), this book will be a welcome gift (its on MY list to give and get)!
CHARITY
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Charity, to be fruitful, must cost us.
- Mother Teresa
COMPASSION
One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose. - Jean Anouilh
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat... We must find each other.
- Mother Teresa
GRATITUDE
A thankful heart is the parent of all virtues. - Cicero
Into the well which supplies thee with water, cast no stones. - Talmud
No duty is more urgent than returning thanks. - Saint Ambrose
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each, and know how hard it is to make anything good. - Baltasar Gracian
HAPPINESS
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. - Joseph Wood Krutch
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something. - August Strindberg
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
- Edith Wharton
COURAGE
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. - Vittorio Alfieri
What is to give light must endure burning - Victor Frankl
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon I
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Muriel Strode
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
- George Christopher Litenburg
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Frank Scully
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