People never forgive the injuries they inflict nor the benefits they endure.
Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.[She is reciting the Lord’s prayer]
My mother’s face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.
It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
Incidentally, I really agree with those who say that the capacity to forgive says something about the essential quality of a person. I’m the lowest grade.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to contemn![Wenn es an allem etwas zu verzeihen gibt, so gibt es auch an allem etwas zu verachten!]
If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn’t forgive her for being hurt.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift.
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
