Quotes About Forgiveness

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

For a slave to be taught that he should no longer lie and cheat with revolutionary; more astonishing still was the slave's discovery that he did not want to lie or cheat and that he now loved the owner whom he had once resented and feared.

You may wish to pray a simple sinner's prayer, such as, 'Lord Jesus, thank you for dying for my sins, which I confess. I ask you to come into my life as my personal Lord and Savior. I pray that you will be with me and guide me in the days ahead' In Jesus precious and powerful name. Amen.

When a nation's land is soaked with innocent blood, the only method of assuaging God's anger is the shedding of the blood of the bloodshedders.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

Confession is good for all of us, but even better for you than for me.

Dear God: I didn't go to mass last Sunday morning. Signed: Conroy Conroy: Don't worry about it. It was a nice day. I don't know who built the church, but I made the sunshine. Signed: God

Sweet assurance of this truth is given. In Luke 23:39-43 we see how the repenting thief turned to Jesus on the cross beside him and said, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

With loving forgiveness, Jesus turned to the penitent sinner and promised salvation not only in the distant day of His kingdom but "to day," said Jesus, "shalt thou be with me in paradise." That very day the dying thief entered into the Paradise of God with Jesus or, in the term to which we are accustomed, entered Heaven that day.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, 'If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.' Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

We had each caused so much pain for each other-yet the love I felt for him was stronger than ever. It was unconditional. I imagined his love for me would be unconditional as well, and maybe, instead of screaming or talking through the terrible mistakes we'd made, all we'd have to would be to look in each other's eyes and say nothing, just touch each other's cheeks, and love each other. That might be enough.

Brother. I'll tell you," Clive said. "I love Jesus the way Mouse loved Kelly. Unabashedly. I love Jesus like I love Duke Ellington and the great Satchmo, like I love the music of Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell. I love Jesus like I love the opening paragraph of One Hundred Years of Solitude and all the books of P.G. Wodehouse. I love Jesus like Elvis loved his momma. For in Jesus is forgiveness, love, joy, and happiness." Clive lifted his beer as if to toast them all.

A simple test of a civilised human being is how they describe those who have treated them badly.

Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel

If things had started over a misunderstanding, some language barrier or even a dramatic physical difference, he might've forgiven some of the things they did. But the way they acted made it clear they not only didn't care about anyone else, but they also relished the horrors they committed. Is that how they keep score within their social structure?

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.

God bends even our sins to his purpose.