#forgiveness

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. ↗

— Mario Batali

#eyes #forgiveness #happen #i #iron

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#against #another #another way #burned #cancelled

Forgive but never forget ↗

— sanaa bahaddou

#forgiveness

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude. ↗

— Clive Barker

#clive #imajica #john-furie-zackariah #forgiveness

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

#forgiveness #forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ↗

— Josh Billings

#complete #revenge

Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance…A useful gift all love’s practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #experience

If he's dead, I'll never forgive you." I suddenly felt cold and frail and horrible numb. Jason's reply was so soft that I almost missed it." I wont forgive myself, either. ↗

— Kathleen Peacock

#forgiveness

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#forgiveness #go #inner #inner peace #letting