Ani DiFranco Quotes

One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

I don't believe in writing people off.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

Love your enemies.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

I could forgive anybody.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

To understand all is to forgive all.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

We pardon as long as we love.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

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

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.