Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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

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

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

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

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.