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

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.