Quotes about Forgiveness
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
- Charles Spurgeon
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
- Elizabeth George
God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.
- Alistair Begg
Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.
- RC Sproul
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
- Catherine Booth
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
- Anselm of Canterbury
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
- JC Ryle
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
- St. John Chrysostom
Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
- John Stott
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
- Madeleine L'Engle