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• I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

  Jay Bakker

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Jay Bakker Talks Faith, Doubt and Where the Church Has Gone Wrong". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

  George Eliot

  Noble, Scorn

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.249

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• Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

  Hiawatha

  Love, Peace, Revenge

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• The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Beautiful, Beautiful Nature, Thirst

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• Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Thinking, Water

  "Titus / Same Courtesy". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Heart, Tears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

  Charles Dickens

  Long, Retribution, Tale Of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.150, The Planet

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• Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Revenge, People, Demand

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• The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

  William Shakespeare

  Action, Virtue, Tempest

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1156, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, People, Mind

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Christian, Injury, Should

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.386

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• Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.

  Christopher Titus

  Cat, Thinking, Race

  "Titus / Same Courtesy". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.

  Mike Patton

  Kings, Wall, Revenge

  "Faith No More". CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.

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• Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

  Faith Popcorn

  Popcorn, Consumers

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.104, BookBaby

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• The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

  Rae Foley

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Race

  Rae Foley (1961). “It's Murder, Mr. Potter”

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• In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

  Robert Shaw

  May, Lord, Made

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• No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Lovers

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• Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

  Pierre Corneille

  Revenge, Punishment, Doe

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• Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Resentment, Misery, Increase

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• I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, War, Wrangling

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.173

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• There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

  Jack McDevitt

  Regret, Real, Justice

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.410, Hachette UK

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• Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Running, Hatred, Risk

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “The Count of Monte Cristo: A Story of Hope, Justice, Vengeance, Mercy, Forgiveness and Death (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.581, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

  Terry Goodkind

  Victory, Return

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone of Tears”, p.661, RosettaBooks

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Psychology, Understanding

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Writing, Justice

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