Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3—4).

Supposing a man not only deserves nothing good from you, but he has also provoked you with injustices and injuries—even this is not just cause for you to stop embracing him with affection and fulfilling your duties of love to him.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

Human relationships, like life itself, can never remain static. They grow or they diminish. But, in either case, they change. Our emotional interests, our intellectual pursuits, our personal preoccupations, all change. So do those of our friends. So the relationship that binds us together must change too; it must be flexible enough to meet the alterations of person and circumstance

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.