Forgiveness is the practice of regenerative love towards others. The wonderful part of this practice is that by it we are forgiven. By refusing to return evil for evil, we create strong character within ourselves…By stopping to take thought and refusing to reply to anger with more anger, we break a vicious circle, and inject a new redemptive element into a conflict
Max Kapp, Earth’s Common Things: A Lenten Manual for 1941 (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)