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We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin (28 October 1966)
- Christianity
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
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Virtue
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Religion
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Enemies
- Love
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Luke (1611), Luke 6:37–38 (KJV)In context
- Charity
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963
- Enemies
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Love
- Theology
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Charity
- War & Peace
Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.
John Lydonborn 1956As quoted in NME Rock ‘N’ Roll Years (1992) by John Tobler, p. 303
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
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