Quotes about Forgiveness

They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.