Love & Forgiveness

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy,
has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you forgive people enough you belong to them,
and they to you, whether either person likes it or not
- squatter's rights of the heart.
--James Hilton

Love Lives by giving and forgiving. Self lives by getting and forgetting.
--Sri Sathya Sai Baba

You may wish to be loving--you may even try with all your might--but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments.
--John Gray (Men, Women and Relationships)

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
--La Rochefaucould

Love 'em for what they are and forgive 'em for what they ain't.
--Author Unknown

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, A tender look which becomes a habit
--Peter Ustinov

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Theresa

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows---it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes too late.
--Jean Giraudoux

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.
--Mahatma Gandhi

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
--Catherine Ponder

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
--Bryant H. McGill

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

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships
--Josh McDowell

He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.
--Martin Luther King, Jr

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger,
the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
--Hannah Moore

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
--John MacArthur

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
--William Carlos Williams

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.
--Ann Landers