Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.