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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John 8:7 (KJV)In context
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Simone Weil1909–1943Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200
Those who understand evil pardon it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #167
- Good & Evil
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost1874–1963Letter to Louis Untermeyer (July 8, 1915)
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Henry Miller1891–1980The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 14
- Freedom
He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’⁠—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
- Anger
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #160
- Age
- Youth
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956“Epitaph” from Smart Set (December 1921)
- Life & Death
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly — that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire1694–1778“Tolerance” (1764)
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.
Dag Hammarskjöld1905–1961Easter 1960
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Response to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, as quoted in Time magazine (1 November 1963)
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Thomas More1478–1535Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)
To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 383
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
- God
- Love
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Knowledge