Quotes About Forgiveness

Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Hanging on to resentment is allowing someone you despise to live rent free in your head. —A

W. S. Plumer said, "We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, 'I have sinned'; but the returning prodigal said, 'I have sinned against heaven and before thee'; and David said, 'Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

the pursuit of holiness must bre anchored in grace; otherwise it is doomed to failure.

Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.

To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

Shall we presume on God's grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?

Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them ...

All my labors are marred by sin and imperfection. As I think of every act I have ever done for God, I can only cry out, 'Oh, God, forgive the iniquity of my holy things.'"5

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus."2

Debido al carácter engañoso de nuestro corazón, algunas veces jugamos con la tentación, abrigando la idea de que siempre es posible confesar y pedir perdón posteriormente, este modo de pensar resulta absolutamente peligroso.

What was in the cup Jesus drank at His crucifixion? It was the wrath of God.

Tenemos que aprender a seguir el ejemplo de Cristo, que fue movido a compasión por los pecadores y que podía orar por ellos incluso cuando lo estaban clavando a la cruz en el Calvario.

Qué clase tan extraña de salvación anhelan los que no se preocupan por la santidad… Quieren ser salvados por Cristo y al mismo tiempo estar fuera de Cristo, viviendo en un estado carnal… Quieren que se les perdonen los pecados, no con la finalidad de caminar con Dios en amor de ahora en adelante, sino a fin de que puedan practicar su enemistad con Él, sin temor al castigo.

So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint

Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.

Only as we come to grips with the fact that we truly were objects of God's wrath do we begin to appreciate this good news of the gospel.

views our disobedience.

But where sin abounded, grace superabounded.