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

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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

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.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

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