Quotes About Forgiveness

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.

Mercy should be given once to a person and it is priceless. This person then should be very honest and should promise not to commit the same particular mistake again.

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.