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

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

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

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

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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.

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

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.