Josh Billings on forgiveness

It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Love
• Theology

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Virtue