Quotes about Forgiveness

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap

Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten

The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it

Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.

Legalism lowers, rather than raises, God's standards. Loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the poor, bringing about justice, forgiving enemies—none of these reduces to a set of rules. Indeed, any list of rules narrows the breadth of what God wants done in the world. It moves the emphasis away from dispensing God's grace to sinners toward a pointless competition with pseudo-saints. It makes faith petty and irrelevant, not something that urgently matters.

Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.