A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it..

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies..

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine ….

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing..

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life..

Forgive those who have hurt you..

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all..

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act….

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago..

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime..

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken..

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive i….

Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones peopl….

With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as w….

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own ….

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving..

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life..

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives..

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and cor….

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenge….