Pardoning Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
— William Shakespeare
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Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
— Morley Safer
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
— William Shakespeare
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What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from…
— Richard Sibbes
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The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought…
— Seneca the Younger
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Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
— Benjamin Franklin
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How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.
— Mark Lowry
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Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with…
— Octavius Winslow
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Pardoning mercy makes way for healing mercy.
— T. B. Joshua
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
— William Gurnall
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The heart has always the pardoning power.
— Sophie Swetchine
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I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.
— Gerald R. Ford
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...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
— Elihu Root
Who Wrote These Pardoning Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Pardoning Quotes as follows: