Quotes about Forgiveness

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.