Colm Wilkinson Quotes

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink

Love your enemies.

My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.

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.

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

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.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

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

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

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.

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?