We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

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

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.