Quotes About Forgiveness

Gospel bestows all good things spiritual: forgiveness of sins, true righteousness, peace of conscience, everlasting life; and all good things temporal: good judgment, good government and peace.

For this Victor has accomplished everything. There is nothing for us to add to what He has done - neither the blotting out of our sin nor victory over the devil and death.

The sin and wrath which Moses arouses through his ministry that Prophet cancels through righteousness and grace by His ministry.

These two words, grace and peace, include all that belong to Christianity. Grace releases sin, and peace makes the conscience quiet. The

True freedom is being free from sin. How

But grace has changed my nature for the better, to keep me from joining them and shedding innocent blood.

There is no means to take sin away but grace alone. That

Ascribe both to God alone, and look upon the person administering it as simply the vicarious instrument of God, by which the Lord sitting in heaven thrusts you under the water with his own hands, and promises you forgiveness of your sins, speaking to you upon earth with a human voice by the mouth of his minister.

So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

Everyone at the table had at one time or another felt their hatred and disgust for former lovers grow without warning.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827)