To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

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

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

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