Quotes about Forgiveness

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii," he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.

God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.

To Jesus she already is somebody. Like the loving father of the prodigal son, Jesus is frantically scanning the horizon, watching for Madonna to return to him. He's absolutely convinced that she's so valuable that she's worth dying for. 'Greater love has no one than this,' said Jesus in John 15:13, 'that one lay down his life for his friends.' That's what He did for her on the cross!

The question is not "Will God grant you a do-over?" The Bible promises, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). God is anxious to give you a do-over; the question is whether you're willing to reach out and ask for one.

if you do something against me, I have the right to forgive you. However, if you do something against me and somebody else comes along and says, 'I forgive you,' what kind of cheek is that? The only person who can say that sort of thing meaningfully is God himself, because sin, even if it is against other people, is first and foremost a defiance of God and his laws.

We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.