When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

Forgiveness is the currency of heaven.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Forgiveness means deferring the cause to Christ and deciding to be free of the ongoing burden of bitterness and blame.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness.