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Quotes About Pardoning

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
~ Augusto Pinochet
Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )
~ Joyce Meyer
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
~ William Gurnall
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
~ G. K. Chesterton
We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
~ Albert Schweitzer
To see the law by Christ fulfilled and hear his pardoning voice, changes a slave into a child and duty into choice.
~ Jerry Bridges
Make me a channel of your peace Where there is hatred, let me sow love Where there is injury, let me sow pardon Where there is doubt, let me sow faith Where there is despair, let me sow hope Where there is sadness, let me sow joy Where there is darkness, let me bring light For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life For this is the Law of Substitution
~ Joann Davis
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
~ Elihu Root
If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.
~ Fred Korematsu
The 'wretch' who has been saved by grace] believes and feels his own weakness and unworthiness, and lives upon the grace and pardoning love of his Lord. This gives him an habitual tenderness and gentleness of spirit. Humble under a sense of much forgiveness to himself, he finds it easy to forgive others." 76
~ John Piper
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
~ G.K. Chesterton
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
~ G. K. Chesterton
I think President Trump could pardon anyone he wanted and have it be an effective pardon. I think there would be a big price to pay if he started pardoning people in connection with the Russian investigation.
~ Richard Painter
Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.
~ Asa Don Brown
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
~ Thornton Wilder
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
~ Elihu Root
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
~ Thornton Wilder
Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.
~ William Shakespeare
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
~ William Shakespeare
It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.
~ Pope Benedict XVI