Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

I know what sin is.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

I ask you to accept one thing. Hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. I may have been wrong. That's your call

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.