Quotes About Forgiveness

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

God uses us in spite of who we are, not because of it.

Grace is a system of living whereby God blesses us because we are in Jesus Christ, and for no other reason at all.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don't know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.