Alexander Pope Quotes

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

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.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.

There are no unforgivable sins.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

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

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.