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Quotes About Pardon

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
~ Emily Bronte
I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
~ Abraham Lincoln
You've got no time to lose / You are young, and you must be living / Go now, you are forgiven.
~ Dispatch
if you do fall, repentance will restore you, and you who were hypocrites at baptism may have a firm faith in your repentance. Be not disturbed by the thought of a difference between the righteous and the penitent, and do not imagine that pardon even gives a lower place; rather believe that it takes away your crown. For there is one reward: he who stands on the right hand shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
~ Jerome
To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.
~ Jerry Bridges
Adonai, forgive me. "He has," Rei assured me.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
~ Barbara Olson
We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
~ Cindy Sheehan
We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
~ Robert E. Lee
There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Mercy there was great, and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me; There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
~ Robert J. Morgan
I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus, Trusting only Thee; Trusting Thee for full salvation, Great and free. I am trusting Thee for pardon; At Thy feet I bow; For Thy grace and tender mercy, Trusting now. I am trusting Thee to guide me; Thou alone shalt lead; Every day and hour supplying All my need.
~ Robert J. Morgan
At that moment there was nothing—no valiant history or hopeful future—half worth my sister's pardon. Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.
~ Leif Enger
pardon!' said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: 'Did you speak?' 'Not I!' said the Lory
~ Lewis Carroll
Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault.
~ Alexander Pushkin
The kiss of the 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
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
~ Douglas Horton
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
~ Douglas Horton
Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.
~ Jim George
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
Some people, Orso supposed, can never forgive being forgiven.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A circumstance occurred that renewed the misery, which, can now never quit me but in the grave, to which I look with no fearful apprehension, but as a refuge from calamity, trusting that the power who has seen good to afflict me, will pardon the imperfectness of my devotion, and the too frequent wandering of my thoughts to the object once so dear to me.
~ Ann Radcliffe
Tú no sabes que has sido perdonado
~ Anna Akhmatova
Now, Halford, I bid you adieu for the present. This is the first instalment of my debt. If the coin suits you, tell me so, and I'll send you the rest of my leisure: if you would rather remain my creditor than stuff your purse with such ungainly heavy pieces tell me still, and I'll pardon your bad taste, and willingly keep the treasure to myself.
~ Anne Bront