The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn't bring forgiveness, it's when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.

In my anger, I slew you twice. I saw you only as the dragon, and I forgot what you were meant to be. Can you forgive me?"--Etanun

Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.