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

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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 giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

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