Desmond Tutu on forgiveness

We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Love
• Theology

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Virtue