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

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

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.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.‘

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

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

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

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

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

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.

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

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.

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

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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.

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.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

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.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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.

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

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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.