“Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.”

“It is against the sin of forgiveness that I wanted to warn you.”

“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”

“Okay, God. I forgive You for trusting me. I promise to trust You in return.”

“And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.”

“here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)”