Quotes related to 1 John 1:9
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
— Pope Francis
Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need.
— David Platt
You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
— Jim Bakker
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
— Johannes Tauler
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
— Phillips Brooks
Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.
— AW Tozer
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.
— Billy Graham
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
— Charles Spurgeon
If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.
— Timothy Keller
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
— Watchman Nee
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
— Frederick Buechner
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
— Johannes Tauler