forgiveness, n.Definitions

Forgiveness is divine, just as to err is human.

Forgiveness is the most complete of all kinds of revenge.

Forgiveness is a feeling.

Forgiveness is a gift one gives oneself.

Forgiveness is a matter of absorbing the loss and the debt. One bears it oneself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Forgiveness is a choice such that even though you are wounded you choose to hurt and suffer less.

Forgiveness is a coping skill that takes root very early in our lives.

Forgiveness is the only one of the diety's attributes that we might imitate to the extent that we can pretend to equal him. We cannot, indeed, give like God... but surely we may forgive like him.