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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.

We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

Love is stronger than justice.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.