I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to read more

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.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.

Good, to forgive;
Best to forget.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he read more

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.

These evils I deserve, and more
. . . .
Justly, yet despair not of his final read more

These evils I deserve, and more
. . . .
Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be read more

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.

What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough read more

What if this cursed hand
Where thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?