Pardoning Quotes

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

Mercy trumps justice.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

I let people off the hook too easily.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

That king who pardons the perpetrator of violence quickly perishes and incurs hatred.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

If anyone should do any pardoning. I should be the one pardoning the government for what they did to the Japanese-American people.

Know all and you will pardon all.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!