Quotes About Forgiveness

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

When we don't forgive, we're not hurting the other person. We're not hurting the company that did us wrong. We're not hurting God. We're only hurting ourselves.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.

God forgive you, but I never can.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.