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"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." ~C.S. Lewis
"Many people ruin their lives and their health by eating the poison of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness." ~Joyce Meyer
"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you." ~Jesus Christ, Matthew 6:14
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." ~Henry Ward Beecher
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." ~Josh Billings
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving one another." ~Jean Paul Richter
"When you are willing to forgive, your fellowship with God has a free flow. Unforgiveness blocks it." ~Joyce Meyer
"Forgiveness brings freedom." ~Anonymous
"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to about toward us in all wisdom and prudence," ~Ephesians 1:7-8
"Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." ~Luke 6:37
"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting ourselves up as a higher tribunal than Him." ~C.S. Lewis
"To be a Christian is to excuse the inexcusible, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." C.S. Lewis
"But forgiveness is not an emotion...Forgiveness is an act of will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart." ~Corrie Ten Boom
"I choose peace... I will live forgiven. I will forgive so that I may live." ~Max Lucado
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends." ~Henry Ward Beeacher
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