John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

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

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

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

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I think there's good in everybody.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

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

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.