Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

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.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

accolades, let us simply remember to: LaughMore, for laughter is the window through which we glimpse the joy of God; HopeMore, because tomorrow life will give us another chance; GiveMore, for when we share our time, we share our most prized possession; ForgiveMore, because as we forgive others, we learn to also forgive ourselves; and LoveMore, for while faith may have the power to move mountains, love has the remarkable power to change the human heart.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.