Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. It is a release from the burden of anger and pain. When you choose to forgive, you choose to live in the present and the future instead of the past. It does not mean to forget but it does mean to release and go on. Forgiveness doesn’t happen on it’s own, you must choose to forgive.

1. Bryant H. McGill

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

2. Robert Muller

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

3. Emo Philips

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.

4. 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.

5. Mark Twain

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

6. E.H. Chapin

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

7. Lewis B. Smedes

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

8. Mahatma Gandhi

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