Quotes about Forgiveness
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
- Oscar Wilde
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
- Mother Teresa
Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.
- Randy Alcorn
The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.
- Tim LaHaye
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
- AW Tozer
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
- Charles Spurgeon
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
- Charles Spurgeon
What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
- Ralph Abernathy
The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.
- Randy Alcorn