Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

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

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.