Quotes about Forgiveness

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.

holding onto an offense will make you a bitter and unloving person, and you will inevitably damage all your relationships.

Even if he never does this, I am called to maintain an attitude of forgiveness toward the offender.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

is very aware of the other's sin and working hard to get the other to see it too.

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

I was good at helping other people see and own their sin. But I was not willing to believe that my need was just as desperate. Maybe I was blinded by my theological knowledge or my pastoral skill. But

Humility enables us to see our own sin before we focus on the sin and weaknesses of another.

Do you need encouragement, comfort, hope, direction, wisdom, courage, rebuke, warning, forgiveness, patience, teaching, correction, thanks, insight, a job description, or something else? My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

But the service Jesus rendered for us in his life, death, and resurrection is not just for forgiveness of sins or a future in heaven; it is also for the daily power to change in the present. We are not just promised life after death, but life before death! You can remember this as you face the realities of life in a broken world.

This is the ground on which we build all relationships. Every time you are tempted to shun another believer, remember that the Father, Son, and Spirit were torn asunder so that you might be united.