Jack Kerouac Quotes

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.