Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
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.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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.
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.