Quotes About Forgiveness

Grace is only ever attractive to sinners.

Prayer is abandoning my righteousness, admitting my need for forgiveness, and resting in the grace of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Si no reconoces tu pecado, no valorarás la gracia. Si no valoras la gracia, no buscarás el perdón y el rescate que esta provee.

First, the gospel is the world's best love story. It is a story of a God of love who places his love on people who do not deserve his love. This God sends the Son of his love to make a sacrifice of love so that his children can be welcomed into his arms of love and become a community of love that takes his love to those in desperate need of that love.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

We bask in God's grace but throw the law at others. We're

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

The prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. (James 5:15–16)

Because I had been given another gift: the knowledge of a ready, willing, and capable Savior. I had been blessed with the awareness of his offer of forgiveness to all who confess their sin and by faith seek his forgiveness.

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

Hij zei: 'Filip, schep het verleden om vrij te zijn voor de toekomst. Trek je eigen karikatuur en je bent ervan af.' Hij antwoordde: 'Goed Filip, maar wat met de schuwe wezel van het schuldgevoel, het vlugge nooit voldane roofdier?

I don't have any ill will toward anybody, except for maybe the people...yeah, the people.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure. It is not uncommon to forget actions that one regrets, but if the forgetting truly has occurred, we should not consider that a lie. for there was no choice involved. Often it will not be possible to determine whether a memory failure has occurred or whether its invocation is itself a lie.

By love alone is hatred dispelled." Jesus would add: a love that must be ready to die rather than hate. Out of such love, and out of such death that this love can require, will hatred be dispelled. Hearts will be changed. And so will our world.

Nor could she help him with the guilt burden of the jilting of the girl to whom he had promised himself and whose life might be irretrievably wrecked by his decision. And this, too, Jerry was able to face... for the war had taught him that life is pitiless and that there is forgiveness for many things, but not for weakness.

All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil…. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath…. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:17, 19,21.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Apologizing is a concrete action that deepens trust, respect and intimacy

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.