Quotes About Forgiveness

order to deliver us from all our sin and punishment, God sent John the Baptist, and He planned this so that Jesus could take-on all our sins through John the Baptist. If

If you believe that all your sins have been passed-onto Jesus, you will be called 'the righteous', because you are without sin by faith, and only the righteous who believe this will go to Heaven according to the law of the grace of God.

In the Old Testament when a sinner passed-on his sins onto a goat through the laying on of hands, those sins were passed over onto the goat, and the goat had to suffer death in order to atone for those sins instead of the sinner.

Yes, this is true. Jesus has saved us by taking-on your sins as well as mine through His baptism He had received from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross and paying the full price for them, and then being resurrected from the dead.

Ni la búsqueda de justicia con ánimo vengativo por parte de los vencedores ni el olvido por decreto son actitudes deseables.

Seriously. All those times I said I hated you? I didn't. I realise that now. That hate was nothing. It was a microscopic semen stain on the hotel mattress of life. But this hate I feel now is so much more. It's bukkake-level compared to what came before.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

He never mocks your weaknesses or throws your sin in your face. He never gets tired of you or gives up on his relationship with you. He doesn't ask you to earn what you can never deserve, and he never makes you feel guilty for needing his good gifts. His love isn't conditional and his grace is never temporary.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Parents, if your eyes ever see or your ears ever hear the sin and weakness of your children, it's never an accident, it's never a hassle, it's never an interruption; it's always grace. God loves your children and because he does, he has placed them in a family of faith so that you can be his tool of convicting, forgiving, and transforming grace.

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

It's a grace to regret. Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame. But it is also grace that forgives what has been exposed. Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

God's grace frees you from having to deny your weaknesses.

It is grace to not be paralyzed by regret. The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

fact is that no one gives grace better than someone who is convinced that he needs it, as well.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness, and sanctification center, where flawed people place their trust in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he has designed.

There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.