Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

Holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.