#forgiveness

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #because #cure #forgiven #hope

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#always #bottom #deep #find #forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#action #freedom #key

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#again #been #being #found #lost

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. ↗

— Mario Batali

#eyes #forgiveness #happen #i #iron

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#against #another #another way #burned #cancelled

Forgive but never forget ↗

— sanaa bahaddou

#forgiveness

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude. ↗

— Clive Barker

#clive #imajica #john-furie-zackariah #forgiveness

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us. ↗

— Horatius Bonar

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