Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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.

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

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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.

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

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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

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.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

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.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

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

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.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

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

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.