The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

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

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

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