Alice Walker Quotes

I don't think vengeance is much good.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

There is power in forgiveness.

What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

There is hope in forgiveness

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Well. Like I said, I dont want to fight anymore. I dont want us to hate each other. And ... well ... I squeezed my eyes shut and then opened them. No matter how I fee about us ... I want you to be happy

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.