The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.