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.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

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

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

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

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

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

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

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.