Quotes about Forgiveness

So instead of wasting time on that endless quest for life, you have been invited to enter into God's rest for the rest of your life. Rest in your identity as his child. Rest in his eternal love. Rest in his powerful grace. Rest in his constant presence and faithful provision. Rest in his patience and forgiveness. Rest.

Paul is saying that we do the right that we do because grace is at that moment rescuing us from ourselves. Grace is protecting us from the self-righteousness and self-sovereignty that would make us all too independent and all too rebellious. Every moment of our obedience is an evidence of and a celebration of the grace that not only forgives but rescues, and not only rescues but transforms. We live in God's sight not in our own strength, but only by grace.

God knew that we would convince ourselves that we are okay when we're not okay. So he designed a means for us to be confronted again and again with the depth of our sin and the expansive glory of his provision in the person and work of the Lamb, the Savior, the Redeemer—the Lord Jesus Christ.

DECEMBER 25 Jesus was despised and rejected in the here and now so that you would have the Father's love and acceptance forever.

For sin, forgiveness; for weakness, strength; for foolishness, wisdom; for bondage, deliverance—such is the way of the grace of Jesus.

No, trials expose what we have always been. Trials bare things to which we would have otherwise been blind. So, too, the teen years expose our self-righteousness, our impatience, our unforgiving spirit, our lack of servant love, the weakness of our faith, and our craving for comfort and ease.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

The reconciliation of a marriage must be a lifestyle, not just the response you have when things go bad. Consider

Every human being is in need of a king. All human beings need the rescue, forgiveness, justice, mercy, refuge, and protection that they are unable to give themselves.

He hasn't just forgiven us, he's taken up residence in us, and in that there is real hope. For further study and encouragement: Ephesians 2:11—22

When you think you're righteous, you expect others to be righteous as well, so you become demanding, judgmental, and constantly disappointed.

Sin has driven us out of the garden, but grace drives us right into the Father's arms.