Quotes About Reconciliation

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

When God forgives, He at once restores.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far!

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.