Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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