Mason Cooley Quotes

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

For myself and for our nation I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.

We do not kick a man in the stomach after we’ve licked him.

An inquiry is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

It's a very basic, simple idea, isn't it - saying thank you, saying sorry - and in the overcomplicated, over-busy world we live in it is very powerful.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

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

I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That's the amazing thing about the grace of God.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.