Quotes about Forgiveness

The only solution is love.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

8. Resolved, To act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings, as others; and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

He willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.