Quotes About Forgiveness

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

God never consults your past to make your future.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.