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

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.

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

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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