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Forgiveness Quotes by Miroslav Volf
- If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is…
- Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
- Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
- The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well.…
More Forgiveness Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
- This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — Francis Bacon
- I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. — Alan Ball
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
- I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali