people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others. A person who possesses this characteristic and keeps score in relationships is a person who is emotionally wired to carry all the stress that goes with carrying grudges.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

If you desire to mine the gold of good intentions in others, then forgiveness is essential. And it's rarely a one-time thing. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

A forgiving spirit is the one basic, necessary ingredient for a solid relationship.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than wounds we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.