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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
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain⁠—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
- Character
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov1921–2004BBC obituary (2004)
- Love
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)
Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 750
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
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948Stillness Speaks (2003) (Ch 8)
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
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
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter VIIIn context
- Character
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
- Children
- Family
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
- God