Mark Goulston Quotes

I think I am a living example of Modi's capacity to forgive.

I don't believe in writing people off.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

I believe in forgiveness.

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.

We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

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.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

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.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

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

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

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

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

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

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

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.