Forgiveness is God's command.

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

I get this feeling sometimes that after the world ends, when God destroys all our buildings and our flags, we will wish we had seen everybody as equal, that we had eaten dinner with prostitutes, held them in our arms, opened up spare rooms for them, and loved them and learned from them.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Only as men succeed in seeing no evil in others will they become free from sin, and sorrow, and suffering.

When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.

What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs? Jesus is gonna ask, What's that you toting there on your back? Do you want to be opening that sack and showing Him all those ugly things? He's dressed all in white and shining like the sun, and you're coming in with a load of hate in your arms? Umm hmm. I can't imagine doing that.

What do you think Jesus is gonna say if we come walking up to those pearly gates carrying a whole sackful of grievances and grudges on our backs?

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.