Insights listed by
author
Scott Arbuthnot - Corporate forgiveness
Karen Armstrong - Vengeance and
self-righteousness
David Augsburger - Can we forgive
'institutions'?
David Augsburger - When abuse distorts
forgiveness
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Forgiveness and
Christlike suffering
Christopher Bright - Justice through
restitution
Jean Calvin - Solidarity in discipline
Episcopal Church USA - Closing an employment
well
David Aaron Cohen - Being perfect, not
winning
Val Curtis - Disgust and oppression
John Donne - This man is forgiven
Yehudah Fine - Forgiveness and spiritual
identity
Carly Fiorina - Small and large acts of
leadership
Beverly Flanigan - Six strategies for
stepping into forgiveness
Charles Handy - Organisational
forgiveness
Charles Handy - Reward the good, forgive the
bad
Johann Hari - Paedophiles are people too
Beverly Harrison - Anger can take a person
seriously
Adrian Hastings - A community of guilt
Richard Holloway - Just as a stopped clock
Barry Howard - A healing community
Gregory Jones - A world of sin
Gregory Jones - Christian idealism and
denying one's desire for revenge
Gregory Jones - Forgiveness is more a
lifestyle than an action
Gregory Jones - Nietzsche's critical
insight into 'Christian' forgiveness
Gregory Jones - Privatising forgiveness
Gregory Jones - Victims who purchase
compassion
James Jones -
You need to hear them say sorry
Carl Jung - Insoluble problems
R T Kendall - We liars who pray "Forgive
us our debts ..."
Søren Kierkegaard - Good intentions which
conceal rejection
Martin Luther King - The power to forgive
Andrew Knock - Forgiveness inside
different types of communication
Distinguishing between 'guilt' and 'shame'
- Harold Kushner
George Eldon Ladd - Jesus walked his talk
Sharon Lamb - Civic notions of forgiveness
C S Lewis - As we forgive
Fred Luskin - Becoming a forgiving person
Fred Luskin - Choosing to forgive
Fred Luskin - The hurt wasn't intended
Martin Luther - Righteous and a sinner
John MacArthur - But will he sin
again?
John MacArthur - Confessions of a
'justified sinner'
John MacArthur - Forgive and forget
John MacArthur - Most personal problems
John MacArthur - Reconciliation is
the goal
Michel Martin - Questioning is wiser
than blind belief
Jurgen Moltmann - The 'righteous'
Stephen Neill - A wrongdoer is a valuable
person
Elizabeth Ruth Obbard - Compassion
John O'Donohue - Compassion for yourself
John O'Donohue - Kalyana-mitra ('noble
friend')
Juan Carlos Ortiz - Don't carry a corpse
Juan Carlos Ortiz - Hung up on
externals
Elaine Pagels - Choosing to feel guilty
rather than helpless
Wolfhart Pannenberg - Preaching moral
conversion
Venerable Pannyavaro - Four qualities
of love
Russ Parker - How not to counsel
Alan Paton - The greatest offence
Diane Perlman - Asking for forgiveness
Melanie Phillips - Domestic violence
initiated by women
Ralph Reed - Christian weapons
Dennis Rivers - Campaigning against evil
Brother Roger - The highest expression of
love
Dorothy Rowe - Revenge: easing my own guilts
Miguel Ruiz - Beginning to be free
Martin Rutte - Spirituality and religion
in the workplace
Jonathan Sacks - The core of all ethics
St Paul - Charge it to me (Philemon)
St Paul - Forgive and comfort him (2
Corinthians 2)
Harold Schulweis - Forgiving and a kind of
forgetting
Albert Schweitzer - Being true to myself
through forgiving
Raja Shehadeh - An assertion of dignity
Tom Shippey - Two views of evil
Donald Shriver - Don't forgive too soon
Donald Shriver - Empathy for the enemy
Donald Shriver - Is forgiveness really a
matter of religion?
Donald Shriver - Sharing our security -
national and personal
Stephen Simon - Field of
Dreams
Lewis Smedes - Recreate your past
Jon Sobrino - The purpose of forgiveness
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The line between good
and evil
Clive Stafford Smith - Condemnation and
'reasonable doubt'
Clive Stafford Smith - Overcoming hatred
with compassion
Clive Stafford Smith - Should the wrongdoer be
made to pay?
John V Taylor - Going further
Helmut Thielicke - I am far too just
Paul Tillich - Forgiveness needs to be
embodied in others
Thomas Trzyna - Art and the difficulty of representing forgiveness
Tom Trzyna - Shakespeare and forgiveness
Desmond Tutu - Forgiveness and justice
Desmond Tutu - Leadership and peace in
the Middle East
Desmond Tutu - The capacity to change
Jean Vanier - Pushing people away
Andrija Vrane - Bidding goodbye to evil
Brian Walden - Nero and frail leaders
Jim Wallis - Forgiveness invites
conversion
Jim Wallis - What love is for
William Webber - Grudges : Maintaining or
releasing them
Simone Weil - Despising the afflicted
Simone Weil - To love your neighbour as
yourself
Peter Winch - More than morality
Chris Wood - Discipline and punishment
Chris Wood - The offender is our judge
Everett Worthington - Empathy and guilt
Mike Yaconelli - Pettiness
Philip Yancey - Two types of people |
The English human-rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, now
46, established the charity Reprieve in 1999. He spent more than 20 years working in the
United States before returning to the UK in 2004. As well as defending prisoners on death
row, his clients include detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, whom he visits monthly. He
lives in London with his wife, Emily.
