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Quotes About Pardon

And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
~ Denis Johnson
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.
~ Rashida Tlaib
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
~ Louisa May Alcott
beg Love's pardon for your want of faith. Helen chose you without reason because she loves you without cause; embrace her without question and watch your weather change.
~ John Barth
Oh! I cannot now express what then I saw and felt of the steadiness of Jesus Christ, the rock of man's salvation: What was done, could not be undone, added to, nor altered.  I saw, indeed, that sin might drive the soul beyond Christ, even the sin which is unpardonable; but woe to him that was so driven, for the word would shut him out.
~ John Bunyan
Remember that you are sinners as abominable as the Publican, wherefore do you, as you have him for your pattern, go to God, confess, in all simple, honest, and self- abasing, your numerous and abominable sins; and be sure that in the very next place you forget not to ask for pardon, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. And remember that none but God can help you against, nor keep you from, the damnation and misery that comes by sin.
~ John Bunyan
Those who cannot forgive, don't deserve forgiveness
~ Unknown
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
~ James Thomson
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
~ John Dryden
The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth
~ Dorothy Frances Gurney
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To forgive is human, to forget divine. . .
~ James Grand
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray
~ John Calvin
We are here to ask for your forgiveness,
~ Reuven Rivlin
This movie is about forgiveness,
~ Unknown
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
~ Mary McCarthy
He said: I will ask for you forgiveness from my Lord; surely He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
~ Unknown
Ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them; even if you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will not forgive them; this is because they disbelieve in Allah and His Apostle, and Allah does not guide the transgressing people.
~ Unknown
Will they not then turn to Allah and ask His forgiveness? And Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
~ Unknown
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
She is more than just a liar; she and her husband Bill are corrupt and known to be corrupt, going back to their Arkansas days. Just prior to leaving the White House, the Clintons pardoned a notorious fugitive who had fled the country to escape prosecution on racketeering and tax fraud. Pardons don't come free—the man's family and friends poured millions of dollars into the Clinton coffers in exchange.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
It describes him as a fallen creature, of his own nature inclined to evil, a creature needing not only a pardon, but a new heart, to make him fit for heaven. It shows him to be a corrupt being under every circumstance, when left to himself, corrupt after the loss of paradise, corrupt after the flood, corrupt when fenced in by divine laws and commandments, corrupt when the Son of God came down and visited him in the flesh, corrupt in the face of warnings, promises. miracles, judgments, mercies.
~ J.C. Ryle
He meant to declare strongly that he trusted in nothing but Jesus Christ crucified for the pardon of his sins and the salvation of his soul. Let others, if they would, look elsewhere for salvation; let others, if they were so disposed, trust in other things for pardon and peace. But for his part, the apostle was determined to rest on nothing, lean on nothing, build his hope on nothing, place confidence in nothing, and glory in nothing except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ J.C. Ryle