Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I’m working on, like what Prince did with ‚Purple Rain.‘

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that’s what was in our head for ‚Get On Your Boots.‘ But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Our God is a forgiving God.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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.‘

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

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.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.