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

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

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

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.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.