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

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

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

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

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

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

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