3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

It is an altar call to the world, an invitation to see a new kind of Christianity and to hear the confession of a church on its knees asking your forgiveness for the mess we have helped create. And it is an “alter” call to the church, to alter our vision from the patterns of this world and create new ways of living.

It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?

Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.

This is specifically the point of the gospel: Jesus has taken all our sin. And faith in him cleanses us from all transgressions and all unrighteousness. Jesus bore the full weight of our sin in our place. As a substitute he took it all. He took it all out of the way. He nailed it all to his cross.

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry; it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

We have the keys to open the Heavens door; Bible reading and prayer.

Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?