Fred Rogers Quotes

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

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.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

Only love can heal hatred.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

People can forgive each other.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

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

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.