Quotes about Forgiveness

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

The one thing worth celebrating for all eternity is your redemption.

Our relationships are often harmed when we try to atone for our own sins while condemning the other person for his.

Only when you accept the bad news of the gospel does the good news make any sense. The grace, restoration, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, patience, power, healing, and hope of the gospel are for sinners. They are only meaningful to you if you admit that you have the disease and realize that it is terminal.

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.

holding onto an offense will make you a bitter and unloving person, and you will inevitably damage all your relationships.

Even if he never does this, I am called to maintain an attitude of forgiveness toward the offender.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

is very aware of the other's sin and working hard to get the other to see it too.

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.

I was good at helping other people see and own their sin. But I was not willing to believe that my need was just as desperate. Maybe I was blinded by my theological knowledge or my pastoral skill. But