C. S. Lewis Forgiveness Quotations

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.