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.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

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.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith forgiveness absolution extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic no matter how lapsed they are.

Well I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love and not one of us is going to come off very well and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

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

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness I was never going to be forgiven.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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

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.

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

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.