Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. – Corrie Ten Boom

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. – Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Repentance is another name for aspiration. – Henry Ward Beecher

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes