“Prison is not a joke.”
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
“The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.”
“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.”