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Quotes About Pardon

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
~ Francis Bacon
Se venger, c'est se mettre au niveau de l'ennemi; pardonner, c'est le dépasser.
~ Francis Bacon
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
~ Franklin P. Adams
You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
~ Frederick Forsyth
one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.
~ Frederick Forsyth
a reprieve like that "a tender mercy
~ Brenda Novak
It was you, you who brought me the pardon. Pee on me, won't you. It would be like benediction. O, what a sleepwalker I have been!
~ Henry Miller
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
El ser humano casi siempre perdona lo que comprende.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
What I cannot love, I overlook.
~ Anais Nin
Pritkin muttered something that sounded fairly vicious. "My clothes are warded! Even if I wished to accede to your demand, it would not work on them." "Then strip." "I beg your pardon?" He sounded almost polite suddenly, as if he believed he couldn't possibly have heard right.
~ Karen Chance
That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That GOD seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of his mercy.
~ Brother Lawrence
Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God's holiness or compel his pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer him nothing for what he alone can give. Then we rest in his promise to forgive those who humbly seek him.
~ Bryan Chapell
To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.
~ Debbie Ford
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
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
~ William Wallace
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
~ William Wallace
Everything can be forgiven, save telling the truth
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In 2006, the political ambitions of Governor Huckabee of Arkansas, who was going to stand in the primaries as a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, extended to granting me a pardon for my misdemeanor of thirty years previous. Governor Huckabee also thinks of himself as a guitar player. I think he even has a band. In fact there was nothing to pardon. There was no crime on the slate in Fordyce, but that didn't matter, I got pardoned anyway.
~ Keith Richards
Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.
~ Ilona Andrews
Some people conflate forgiveness with absolution
~ Ira Byock
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel