Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.

Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.

Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.

Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.

He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.