We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
The President can pardon us again... and again and again, but... picketing will continue, and sooner or later, he will have to do something about it.
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.
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