Robert E. Lee Quotes

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

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

People can forgive each other.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

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.

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.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

I could forgive anybody.

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

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

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.

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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

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