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Quotes About Forgiveness

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
~ Catherine Booth
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.
~ Stasi Eldredge
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person.
~ Warren E. Burger
I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
~ Pierre Trudeau
God made saints out of far worse people than you.
~ Mark Hart
Blame is for God and small children.
~ Dustin Hoffman
God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
~ J. C. Ryle
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
God never tires of forgiving us.
~ Pope Francis
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
~ John Stott
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
~ Madeleine L'Engle
If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.
~ Sylvia Browne
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
~ Heinrich Heine
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
~ C. S. Lewis
God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.
~ Rumi
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ J. C. Ryle
You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
~ St. Catherine of Siena