Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.