Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

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.

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