Quotes about Forgiveness
God's justification of sinners is not a forgetting, nor is it simply forgiveness. It is a definitive, wholesale, final assault upon and defeat of Sin, understood as a Power, and the creation of a new humanity.
- Fleming Rutledge
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
- Desmond Tutu
Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.
- Martin Luther King III
Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.
- Jon Jones
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
- Paul Tillich
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
- Ambrose of Milan
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
- John Henry Newman
Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
- Joyce Meyer
Shame of you. Grace on you.
- Robin Jones Gunn
Shame off you. Grace on you.
- Robin Jones Gunn