Quotes about Forgiving

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

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.

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

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).

God forgets the past... Imitate Him.

When we are broken like Jesus, we are able to forgive people, truly forgive them, and desire no revenge. A good example of this is found in the life of Joseph. When his brothers came to him desperate in the time of famine, he had every reason to turn them away and let them die. But he didn't. He said, "My brothers, don't be afraid, the Lord sent me here for you" (see Genesis 45:5).

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.

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.

we forgive those who trespass