Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Forgiveness is essential if we are to guard our hearts with all diligence.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear.

I, too, wanted to do penance for my own sins and for the sins of the whole world, for I had a keen sense of sin, of natural imperfection and earthliness.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Hurting people hurt people. And often the one who seems to get "cut" the most is the person lashing out. They nurse their pain, anger, bitterness, frustration, unforgiveness, or resentment until those emotions become their master and they are enslaved to them.

Wounded people may not get over their wounds easily or quickly. Wounds can be hard just to brush aside because the wounder says, "I'm sorry.

As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.