How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.

They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one on me.

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

There is no future without forgiveness

Our response to an offense determines our future.

The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

Forgiveness is God's command.

it has been and always will be my desire not to attack even those whom public repute disgraces. I am not delighted at the faults of any man, since I am very conscious myself of the great beam in my own eye, nor can I be the first to cast a stone at the adulteress.

Instead, we should remember to forgive others even when they have caused us suffering, as we often experience in this life. If we are unwilling to forgive, we can be certain that we won't be forgiven ourselves.