Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord in his wisdom didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

Forgiveness has no deadline.

Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

The grace of God transforms the sinner into saint.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

It's gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword, Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

We use to think that we'll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.