But isn't the core of forgiveness that the debt is paid? You don't owe the offended anymore.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

Thanks for respecting me.

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.