forgiveness quotes

Le coeur d'une me'  re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

- Honore   de Balzac
  La Femme de trente ans.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee,O L. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of mysupplications.Ifthou,L, shouldest mark iniquities, O L, who shall stand? But, there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms130:1^4.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

-William Blake
  The Gates of Paradise, prologue.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer,  Apostle's Creed.

   I believe any person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give it.

- Bill (William) Clinton
  Statement after being acquitted by the Senate,12 Feb.

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

-John Dryden
  The Conquest of Granada, pt.2, act1, sc.2.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now Eliot History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Gerontion'.

Teach us delight in simple things And mirth that has no bitter springs; Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men 'neath the sun!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Puck of Pook's Hill,'Children's Song'.