Quotes About Forgiveness

In sum, I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

Amar la justicia es hacerla crecer, no vengarla

At last I understood: in the final analysis, forgiveness is an act of faith. By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am. By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out. I leave in God's hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy.

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.

forgiveness alone can halt the cycle of blame and pain, breaking the chain of ungrace.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.

Legalism lowers, rather than raises, God's standards. Loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the poor, bringing about justice, forgiving enemies—none of these reduces to a set of rules. Indeed, any list of rules narrows the breadth of what God wants done in the world. It moves the emphasis away from dispensing God's grace to sinners toward a pointless competition with pseudo-saints. It makes faith petty and irrelevant, not something that urgently matters.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.

When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.