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.

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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

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.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.