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

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

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

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

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

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

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

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.