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

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

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

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

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.