Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly.

what might have been had this family chosen to model forgiveness for their daughters rather than bitterness.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa

To keep your mind positive, refuse to criticize, complain about, or condemn other people for anything.

I do kind of wish he had chosen another way to do it. But I'll take grace anywhere I can get it.

If you can see your mother as a fragile five-year-old girl, then you can forgive her very easily with compassion. The five-year-old girl who was your mother is always alive in her and in you.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.