Forgiveness is not to condone or minimize the awfulness of an atrocity or wrong. It is to recognize its ghastliness but to choose to acknowledge the essential humanity of the perpetrator and to give that perpetrator the possibility of making a new beginning. Desmond Tutu Nobel Laureate South African Archbishop forgiveness 1

forgiveness Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much. Oscar B. Wilde Irish playwright and novelist forgiveness 2

forgiveness The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Gandhi Proponent of nonviolent protest for social change forgiveness 3

forgiveness The person who seeks revenge should dig two graves. Chinese Proverb forgiveness 4

forgiveness To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes Renowned Christian theologian forgiveness 5

forgiveness He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights leader forgiveness 6