When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

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

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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

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

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.