Ben Domenech Quotes

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

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

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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.

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.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

I believe in forgiveness.

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

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

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

There are no unforgivable sins.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.