Jack Abramoff Quotes

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Blame is for God and small children.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

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

It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

My mum has a lot of pain in her heart to where love is pain for her. But I teach my kids love is beautiful.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

I didn't kill innocent people.