Zitat des Tages über Verzeiht / Forgives:
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
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.
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.
Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.