Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.