Quotes about Forgiveness

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.

If you are easily offended it proves one thing: You don't have a relationship with the Comforter, because He can kiss you and it will disappear. You can give that to the Lord. You have no right to be wounded; you have a right to be healed. You don't have a right to be offended; you have a right to be compassionate and forgiving. Exercise that right!

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.

Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste

Why don't you go back to your wife, then? ' ' It's not easy to live with someone you've injured.

Not many men can have been so loved or have been forgiven so much [...]

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.