Ministers ask: Is it possible for God to forgive Man? And when I think of what has been suffered- of the centuries of agony and tears, I ask: Is it possible for man to forgive God?

Robert Ingersoll
The Foundations of Faith

Of God we ask one favor,
That we may be forgiven-
For what, he is presumed to know-
The Crime, from us, is hidden.

Emily Dickinson

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase
Perspectives, 1966

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Joseph Roux
Meditations of a Parish Priest, 4.84, 1886

Who pardons easily invites offense.

Pierre Corneille
Cinna, 4.1, 1639