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

There is no love without forgiveness and there is no forgiveness without love.

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.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

To err is human to forgive divine.

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.

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.