Quotes About Forgiveness

If you forgive people enough, you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not - squatter's rights of the heart

No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.

Salvation clearly involves forgiveness of sins, but this forgiveness is itself rooted in a person getting freed from Satan's grip, and therefore freed from the controlling power of sin.

Maestre Yoda, îmi pare r?u. - Åžtiu, dar s? îl înfrunÅ£i pe Vader din nou trebuie, iar scuza nu te ajut?.

Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.

Remember three things. First, Christ took upon His own head the sins of those who have wronged us. Second, because of this, He stands between us and those whom we think have wronged us, asking us to realize that the Atonement is sufficient for those sins and to therefore repent of our grudges and give up our enmity. And finally, if we forgive, the Atonement fills us with what we have lacked and either washes away our pain, or sustains us in it.

The good news about hell is this: It wasn't intended for you, and you weren't intended for it. You don't have to go there. Choose otherwise.

when Satan tries to remind us of our past (failures and sins), we're to remind him of his future (ultimate destruction).

The real response to the problem of human sin must always be that I cannot do anything to erase it.

Unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness can give an excuse for demonic activity to remain in a life. With a cleansed heart, and with confession and forgiveness, a person can be set free from even the most insidious intrusion.

The difficulties or pains or resentments that get built up when people live or work together, the assumptions you make about other people and how things should be done are like old food in the pot. Each morning, when you meet each other, let it be like new fresh food! So don't put new arisings into your dirty pot of yesterday's food.

Jesus exhaustively receives the wrath of God.

The love of Jesus upholds justice and extends mercy.

God saves Christians not because they have been righteous but because he is merciful

Jesus has shown the world its bankruptcy so that the world might feel its need for the bailout he provides.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

Given the impossibility of not failing one another, when the Bible says, "We all stumble in many ways,"7 the only way forward in loving community with one another is forgiveness.

Be loving in conflict or be loving in frustration or let love command your every interaction because "love never fails.

In our homes, where we work, in our friendships, we come inevitably to a fork in the road where we must decide, "Will I forgive that?" If the answer is yes, we go forward together in love. If we choose "no, I will not forgive," at that point we will tend to amplify the fault we observe to excuse our withdrawal into bitterness. Everyone loses—and the gospel most of all.

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

repentance. Not a onetime event for the forgiveness of sin and gift of eternal life but a lifetime pattern of humility before a holy God.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

advancing the cause of Jesus that didn't begin and end with love. I was wrong, totally wrong, and had to come to the place where I grieved the failure to love as the greatest failure a Christian is capable of.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.