God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Jonathan Sacks
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Suzanne Somers
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz