Quotes About Pardon

Poet Walt Whitman, a Civil War hospital volunteer who later interviewed pardon-seeking Confederates, remarked that "in any other country on the globe, the whole batch of Confederate leaders would have had their heads cut off.

Mercy is not getting what we deserve, and grace is getting what we don't deserve.

Everyone, it seems, wants absolution for something.

Ma chi capisce tutto e tutti finisce con l'assolvere tutto e tutti. Chi assolve tutto e tutti finisce col perdonare tutto e tutti. Chi perdona tutto e tutti non crede a nulla. E chi non crede a nulla, mia cara, è un cinico. Tout court.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love you. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love you.

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?