Quotes about Pardon

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.

If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake,

For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

St. Thomas thus detects a primary source of presumption in seeking genuinely good things, like human happiness on earth, as if we did not need divine grace to attain them; and in the hope that we can obtain God's pardon and mercy without our confessing and repenting of sin.

The divine order then is first pardon, then holiness; first peace with God, and then conformity to the image of that God with whom we have been brought to be at peace.

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.

Remember that you are sinners as abominable as the Publican, wherefore do you, as you have him for your pattern, go to God, confess, in all simple, honest, and self- abasing, your numerous and abominable sins; and be sure that in the very next place you forget not to ask for pardon, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. And remember that none but God can help you against, nor keep you from, the damnation and misery that comes by sin.