Quotes About Forgiveness

We honor our parents by not accepting as the final equation the most troubling characteristics of our relationship. I decided between my father and me that the sum of our troubles would not be the summation of our lives together. In analysis, you work to turn the ghosts that haunt you into ancestors who accompany you. That takes hard work and a lot of love, but it's the way we lessen the burdens our children have to carry.

Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

How much sinning could you actually have done at a second-grade level?

Someone that I used to be truly loved someone you used to be once. Try not to forget me.

Grace-focused ministers recognize the daily repentance that private prayers must include, confess to others the divine aid that grants them the strength of their resolutions, obey God in loving thankfulness for the forgiveness and future Christ supplies, model

He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.

There is a natural human inclination to take advantage of grace in order to excuse sin.

God does not let our failures to keep his imperatives erase the indicative of his love for us.

Dios nos transforma de adentro hacia afuera, dándonos corazones dispuestos y capaces de vivir para Él. Él no nos ama por lo que hacemos. Hacemos lo que Él ama porque amamos a Aquel que nos ama a pesar de nuestro comportamiento. Ya que nunca nos dejará, ni siquiera cuando le fallemos, nunca desearemos fallarle (Ro 5:10; Heb 13:5).

Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it.

Our dependence on Christ's justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

You taught us to … Love passionately, Forgive completely, Pray fervently, Work happily, Worship reverently, Serve sacrificially, Eat healthily, Laugh heartily, Live fully.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

I do not stop being a child of God because I am a problem child.

Divine blessing flows from God's mercy rather than from our merit.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.