Quotes about Forgiveness

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us." —Sinclair Ferguson

The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." —Oswald Chambers

C. S. Lewis wrote, "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you." Jesus said if your brother "sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him" (Luke 17:4).

Sin is the biggest enemy of happiness because it results in a broken relationship with God. Forgiveness is its greatest friend, because it reunites us with the happy God.

Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.

Baptist pastor Octavius Winslow (1808-1878) said, The child of God is, from necessity, a joyful man. His sins are forgiven, his soul is justified, his person is adopted, his trials are blessings, his conflicts are victories, his death is immortality, his future is a heaven of inconceivable, unthought-of, untold, and endless blessedness—with such a God, such a Saviour, and such a hope, is he not, ought he not, to be a joyful man?

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.

Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it's about God giving to you.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

Isn't love the only thing that counts?