Quotes about Pardon
The Spirit's work is not to make us holy, in order that we may be pardoned; but to show us the cross, where the pardon is to be found by the unholy; so that having found the pardon there, we may begin the life of holiness to which we are called." —Horatius Bonar
— Randy Alcorn
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
— Oscar Wilde
Grace is power, not just pardon.
— John Piper
Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.
— John Owen
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
— William Seymour
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
— Heinrich Heine
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
— Catherine of Siena
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our God is a forgiving God.
— George H. W. Bush
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
— AW Tozer
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.
— George Washington