forgiveness

"The man who retires to meditate mischief and to exasperate his own rage--whose thoughts are employed only on means of distress and contrivances of ruin--whose mind never pauses from the remembrance of his own suffering, but to indulge some hope of enjoying the calamities of another--may justly be numbered among the most miserable of human beings, among those who are guilty without reward, who have neither the gladness of prosperity nor the calm of innocence.

Of him that hopes to be forgiven, it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is therefore superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty, eternity is suspended; and to him that refuses to practice it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain."  ~Samuel Johnson