Quotes About Forgiveness

for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.

the sound of a man forgiving.

forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.

Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.

Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.

Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.

Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?

The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.

What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?