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Quotes About Forgiveness

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions
~ Sri Chinmoy
If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
~ Desmond Tutu
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
~ Desmond Tutu
You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.
~ Don Young
God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been
~ Douglas Wilson
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
God sent us here to make mistakes
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.
~ Eloisa James
Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
~ George MacDonald
The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.
~ Harold S. Kushner
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.
~ Heinrich Heine
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
~ Hosea Ballou
God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.
~ James Bryan Smith
I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
~ Jan Karon
Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
~ Jeannette Walls
We don't want God to remember our sins, so there is something fundamentally wrong in our relentlessly trying to remember those of others.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland