“The gods… the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart."
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."”

“God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.”

“May God have mercy on you! May God bless you! Lord, Thou knowest that I am innocent! With all my heart I forgive my enemies! Long live Christ the King!”

“God may forgive you, but I never can.”

“Poet, Singer, Great Heart,
May our God bless your name,
And the womb that held you, and the breasts that gave you milk.
And may God forgive us all.”

“May God forgive you for telling the truth to those who are not ready to hear it.”

“Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.”

“"The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!"
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."”

“The day the devil asks for forgiveness is the day he ceases to be considered the wicked one. It's said that God loves to forgive.”

“You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God — the blood of Christ itself — does not undo the past.”