Quotes About Pardons

#1. And everything was made of paper: sentences, pardons, pleas, bad records, demerits, proof of guilt, but never, it seemed, proof of innocence. If there were no paper, Carter felt, the entire judicial system would collapse and disappear.

Patricia Highsmith

#2. The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

Henry Fielding

#3. He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

Barbara Olson

#4. It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

Hooman Majd

#5. To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

Cesare Beccaria

#6. The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people - than if they needed no forgiveness at all.

John Newton

#7. God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Pierre Corneille

#9. Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

John Bunyan

#10. First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons.

James Shapiro

#11. A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Thornton Wilder

#12. Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

Criss Jami

#13. I've never been fooled by the romantic, grand gestures. Love is all about the little things, the everyday considerations, kindnesses, and pardons.

Sarah McCoy

#14. Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. We must not forget that the gospel of Christ is holy. It never excuses sin: it pardons it, but only through an atonement. If

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have "rights." God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don't need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.

Timothy Keller

#18. Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

Louis Kronenberger

#19. The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

Joseph Alleine

#20. The offender never pardons.

George Herbert

#21. Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

George Herbert

#22. I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

Gail Collins

#23. Posthumous pardons, however, do not resurrect the innocent.

Allan Nicol

#24. God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

John Calvin

#25. He who pardons easily invites offense.

Pierre Corneille

#26. In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#27. As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

Ann Coulter

#28. Those whom God pardons must be made to know what their sin deserved, and how miserable they would have been if they had been unpardoned, that God's mercy may be the more magnified.

Matthew Henry

#29. "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

John William Fletcher

#30. Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Juvenal