Quotes About Forgiveness

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I

Many people erroneously think that God can just forgive our sins because He is a loving God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The cross speaks to us not only about our sin but about God's holiness.

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

The problem with self-righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin, but not the sin of self-righteousness. When we have this attitude, though, we deprive ourselves of the joy of living in the grace of God. Because, you see, grace is only for sinners.

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.

We cannot deal with the power of sin unless we have first dealt with its guilt. And we deal with it at the cross.

We cannot receive half of God's grace. If we have experienced it at all, we will experience not only forgiveness of our sins but also freedom from sin's dominion.

Bitterness usually stems not so much from the other person's actions as from the effects of those actions on our lives. Consider the following scenario in your life.

God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.

One of the best kept secrets among Christians today is this: 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. Every one of them - no exceptions.

We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.

Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.

Accounting for morality in terms of heavenly truth claims not only allows us but inspires us to admire the Jean Valjeans of the world without suspecting they are mad or misguided in any way.

Purgatory is hope.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury .

And once I opened up all that real estate where before I'd been holding anger and regret, I found a lot of things were simpler than I'd made them.

there's no point in mourning mistakes when you can fix them

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended- what you did wrong or could have done differently- but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.