My mother was suffering every DAY of her life, and what RIGHT did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the NEED to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me LORD.' For what, I didn't KNOW.

Central to EVERYTHING I am and believe and have WRITTEN is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use HUMAN speech both to bless, to LOVE, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to DESTROY and to annihilate.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be FORGIVEN. To wait for them to REPENT before we forgive and repent is to ALLOW them to CHOOSE for us a delay which COULD cost us happiness here and hereafter.

The WEAK can NEVER FORGIVE. FORGIVENESS is the ATTRIBUTE of the strong.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always ENCOURAGE the SINGLES to marry, the married to stick TOGETHER, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to FORGIVE.

Parents FORGIVE their CHILDREN LEAST readily for the FAULTS they themselves instilled in them.

I'm a CHRISTIAN, and I FORGIVE PEOPLE. That's the MATURE THING to do.

To confer DIGNITY, FORGIVE. To EXPRESS CONTEMPT, FORGET.

Our COUNTRY will, I believe, SOONER forgive an officer for attacking an ENEMY than for letting it ALONE.

You HOPE that your teenage self WOULD like and FORGIVE your 50-year-old self.

The word 'racist' is a PERMANENT stain against my NAME. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I MADE a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my KIDS type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's HORRIBLE.

But when you're CHEATING against your FELLOW athletes, that's SOMETHING I can't FORGIVE.