Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.

The truth of God explained their lives, the grace of God fulfilled their lives, the forgiveness of God renewed their lives, the love of God blessed their lives.