Someone asked Luther, “Do you feel that you’ve been forgiven?” He answered, “No, but I am as sure as there’s a God in Heaven!”
Martin Luther

Forgiveness is God’s invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other.
Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions. Unknown

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.
Randall Worley

Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas Kempis

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. Unknown

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy – whether he knows it or not.
O. A. Battista

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy.  For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
C. S. Lewis

The word resentment means to re-feel…to feel again.  Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury.  And you re-hurt yourself.  The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is “Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.”
Norman Vincent Peale

Saints are men who permit God’s forgiveness to come into them so fully that not only are their sins washed out, but also their very selves, their egos, and the root of their self will.  And again we see, the intensity of their power really to forgive is in exact proportion to the degree that they have permitted themselves to be forgiven and so brought back to God.
Unknown

Forgiveness means the offense is gone.  I may remember the offense, but I will “remember it against them no more!”
David Stoop

Forgiveness is God’s invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply.
Sharon Jaynes

Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of servanthood.  It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.
Charles Swindoll

When a person forgives another, he is promising to do three things about the intended wrongdoing: not to use it against the wrongdoer in the future; not to talk about it to others; and not to dwell on it himself.
Jay Adams

I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His.  When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself. Corrie ten Boom

It is a melancholy fact that there are few Christian duties so little practiced as that of forgiveness.
J. C. Ryle

There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney Harris 

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C. S. Lewis

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves.  Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C. S. Lewis

It is a vital moment of truth when a man discovers that what he condemns most vehemently in others is that to which he is himself prone.
Unknown

Tolerance comes with age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.
Alden Nowlan

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Augustine