Quotes About Forgiveness

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.