Quotes about Forgiveness
First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.
- David Jeremiah
When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.
- Charles Spurgeon
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
- Timothy Keller
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
- Watchman Nee
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.
- Francis Schaeffer
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
- John Bunyan
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.
- Martin Luther
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
- RC Sproul
To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
- David Platt
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God's grace appears to you.
- Timothy Keller
God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
- Adrian Rogers