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Quotes About Forgiveness

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.
~ Mark Driscoll
He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
~ Nicholas Evans
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
~ Norman Vincent Peale
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
~ Pliny the Elder
It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.
~ David Jeremiah
Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.
~ David Jeremiah
God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.
~ David Seamands
But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.
~ Elizabeth Smart
We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.
~ Heather Locklear
God will pardon: That's His business.
~ Heinrich Heine
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
~ Ichabod Spencer
Christ exhausted the cup of God's wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.
~ Jerry Bridges
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
~ John Donne
Feeling loved by God means feeling glad not only that He crushed His Son so that I can be forgiven, but that He's crushing everything that takes away from my praising of the glory of His grace.
~ John Piper
Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.
~ Joyce Meyer
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!
~ Joyce Meyer
God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!
~ Kevin DeYoung
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
~ Alexander MacLaren
God, let me remember all good losers.
~ Carl Sandburg
Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.
~ Charitie Lees Smith
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
~ Max Lucado
The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
~ R. C. Sproul
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
~ Timothy Keller