Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

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

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.