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

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Jewel
From her song, Under the Water.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Benjamin Franklin

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Indira Gandhi

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly about Tom in Mark Twain novel.

He who forgives ends the quarrel.
African Proverb

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

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

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

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Nelson

A murder may be forgiven, an affront never.
Chinese Proverb

Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold

No matter how good you try to be to others, you will occasionally hurt them. Forgive yourself for it.
Author Unknown

If you offend, ask for a pardon; if offended forgive.
African Proverb

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even out virtues.
Honore De Balzac

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

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
Penelope Sweet

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Lao Tzu

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald