Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

Never repeat old grievances.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

The sinThat neither God nor man can well forgive.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim’s family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;To err is human, to forgive, divine.