Quotes about Forgiveness
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
- FF Bruce
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
- DL Moody
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
- John Bunyan
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
- CS Lewis
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
- JC Ryle
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
- George Bernard Shaw
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
- St. Augustine
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
- Paulo Coelho
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
- Charles Spurgeon
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
- Anonymous
When my children do wrong I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
- Anonymous
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
- Kevin DeYoung