Quotes about Forgiving
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
— Frederick Buechner
May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.
— Beth Moore
This is a book about worshiping the true God and letting the true God act in us. It tells us as plainly as possible that the true God is a God who cannot stop giving and forgiving, and that our knowledge of this true God is utterly bound up with our willingness to receive from the hand of God the liberty to give and forgive.
— Miroslav Volf
We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.
— AW Tozer
Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!
— Matthew 18:22
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
— Charles Spurgeon
God forgets the past... Imitate Him.
— Max Lucado
it is that the name of God is the object of our fear, because by his name his nature is expressed: Holy and reverend is his name (Psa 111:9). And again, he proclaimed the name of the Lord, The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty (Exo 34:6,7).
— John Bunyan
The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
— James Faust
The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing—that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.
— Paul David Tripp
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
— Francis Chan
we forgive those who trespass
— Peter Kreeft