Quotes about Forgiveness
he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
— Mark Twain
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ... The chain reaction of evil—hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars—must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
— Martin Luther King, Jr.