Quotes About Forgiveness

God in Jesus didn't prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left.

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just gone and done it without waiting for us; and he invites us simply to trust that he has it all accomplished for us in Jesus—and to proclaim that trust by acting as if we really believed it.

Onions die quietly, Cabbages shed no blood; All plants forgive: By the waters that comprise them They wash man's hands And let him walk away.

Well, if you find yourself living by something that can't forgive ... then you die to it and look around for something that can.

In Jesus' death and resurrection, God has declared that he isn't the least interested in examining anybody's books ever again, not even his own: he's nailed them all to the cross. Accountability, however much it may be a buzzword now, is not one of his eschatological categories.

judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance

In the Bible, as a matter of fact, God does so many ungodly things - like not remembering our sins, erasing the quite correct handwriting against us, and becoming sin for us - that the only safe course is to come to Scripture with as few stipulations as possible.

Oh, perdona!- dijo el caballero, moviendo rápidamente la pierna para que la ardilla pudiera recuperar su cola. -Espero no haberte hecho daño. No veo muy bien con esta visera en mi camino. -No lo dudo- replico la ardilla sin ningún resentimiento en la voz. -Por eso siempre estáis pidiendo disculpa a la gente por haberles hecho daño.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Suppose God should damn to everlasting fire a man so great and good, that he, looking from the abyss of hell, would forgive God,—how would a god feel then?

But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.

If I've taken you for granted," said Strike, "I'm sorry. You're the best I've got." "Oh, for fuck's sake, Strike," said Robin, abandoning the pretense that she wasn't crying as she snorted back tears.

We aren't our mistakes. It's what we do -about- the mistake that shows who we are. [Dr. Margot Bamborough to Gloria Conti]

there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten...

You could forgive Brenner a lot, once you saw what 'e'd witnessed, what 'e'd been through . . . but that's true of everyone really, innit? Once you know, ev'rything's explained. It's a shame you often don't know until it's too late . . .

I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of lying. I tell it because I don't want people to think that I have fucked up my life over and over just because I was in a bad mood.

She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost, but, finally, lost forever.

Time will tell if sorry is enough. I don't think it is. If you died tonight, I wouldn't come to your funeral." "You'd