Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
To see evil and not call it evil is evil.
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
if you do countenance those that are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.
The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.
if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
When people do, or say, things we don't believe in, forgiveness can feel disgusting. But when you try to think of someone who isn't worthy of it, it's hard to find an example.
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
