Quotes about Forgiveness

You must let God teach you the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.35

God never loses any of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.

Lord, forgive me for the arrogance that sees interruptions to my plans as alien invasions. Forgive me for constantly trying to do more than you intend with my life. Help me to be like John the Baptist, embracing my losses and respecting my limits. In Jesus' name, amen.

How can I be angry and not sin?

Martin Luther said, "A Christian is not someone who has no sin or feels no sin; he is someone to whom, because of his faith in Christ, God does not impute his sin.

the Christian life requires a continual turning away from sin. But it also requires constant faith, for the Christian daily looks to Christ for loving care. The penitent believer never stops trusting in the saving power of the crucified and risen Saviour.

For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.