Lana Turner

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

Norman Cousins

"Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive."

William Congreve

"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion."

Alexander Chase

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."

Marlene Dietrich

"One forgives to the degree that one loves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

Garrison Keillor

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

William Blake

"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Hubbard

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible."

Alexander Chase

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Oscar Wilde

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Mohandas Gandhi

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

Josh Billings

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

Alexander Pope

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Quentin Crisp

"To understand is to forgive, even oneself."

Alexander Chase

"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."

Alexander Chase

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."

Emo Philips

"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it."

Lewis B. Smedes

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future."

Bernard Meltzer

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."

Lewis B. Smedes