David Small Quotes

To understand all is to forgive all.

I could forgive anybody.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

Know all and you will pardon all.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

People can forgive each other.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Everyone deserves compassion.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

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 can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

I don't believe in writing people off.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.