Wrongdoer Quotes

#1. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

Stephen Richards

#2. The rat is the moustache in the trache. The wrongdoer in the soer.

J. Patrick Lewis

#3. The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. Through my memory of the Passion, God can "purify" my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

Miroslav Volf

#5. If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done - and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

Elizabeth Moon

#6. I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

Habeeb Akande

#7. When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

Plato

#8. A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

Marcus Aurelius

#11. Danger invites rescue ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.

Benjamin Cardozo

#12. The central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

Miroslav Volf

#13. A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Gautama Buddha

#14. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

Lewis B. Smedes

#15. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

Leo Buscaglia

#16. For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

Epicurus

#17. Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.

Lewis B. Smedes

#18. The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.

Thomas J. Paprocki

#19. With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#20. The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt

#21. Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

Anthony Burgess

#22. The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Democritus

#23. Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Stefan Molyneux

#24. Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

Timothy Keller

#25. And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude ... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!

Alexandre Dumas

#26. Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Rita Mae Brown

#27. Just because someone from your past hurt you doesn't mean that every woman after her will.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#28. Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Alfred Hitchcock

#29. She has that kind of manic focus about her, like if she just keeps moving, the things she's upset about can't catch her.

Jessi Kirby

#30. It's autumn in New York. The colors are changing - yellow, the browns, the greens, the oranges. And that's just the tap water.

David Letterman

#31. Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.

Rob Zombie

#32. The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

Aldo Gucci

#33. If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

Joan Crawford

#34. A life without risk, is a life unlived my friend.

Big Time Rush

#35. According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount Jr.

#36. Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Josh Ritter