John Green Quotes

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

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

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

Punishment should have a redemptive quality to it.

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

Football always gives you a chance to set the record straight. Things go full circle and end up the way they should be.

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

A little bit is not that much to ask to make things right.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.