Quotes about Forgiveness

For sure, I would much rather look as if I have it all together and never make mistakes. But as the Bible cautions us, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."12

Forgiveness is a gift

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Getting shot hurts. Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breath it seemed I was getting less & less air. I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed. But I realized I couldn't ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me. Isn't that the meaning of the lost sheep? We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him. I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.

A hermit said, "Do not judge an adulterer if you are chaste or you will break the law of God just as much as he does. For he who said 'Do not commit adultery' also said 'Do not judge.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.