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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel

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.
Saint Augustine

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
Jennifer O'Neill

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.
Darren L. Johnson

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky

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

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller

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

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
Jim Bakker

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
John Rowland

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Chaim Herzog