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

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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

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

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

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

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

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