To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
– C.S. Lewis
Christians | Forgiveness
When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.
– Charles Stanley
Forgiveness | Provision
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours
– Phillips Brooks
Forgiveness | Love
The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath
Satan | Repentance | Forgiveness
One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.
– Ravi Zacharias
Scripture | Heaven | Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
– Hannah More
Forgiveness | The Heart
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Kindness | Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
– George Macdonald
Forgiveness
And you know, when you’ve experienced grace and you feel like you’ve been forgiven, you’re a lot more forgiving of other people. You’re a lot more gracious to others.
– Rick Warren
Forgiveness | Grace
Forgiveness is God’s command.
– Martin Luther
Forgiveness
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
– Henry Ward Beecher
GodMothers | Forgiveness
When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.
– Tim Keller
Angerbitterness | Forgiveness | Happiness | Idolatry
If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don’t give birth to sin yourself; rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.
– Warren Wiersbe
Integrity | Forgiveness | Justice
Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, “I will forgive, but not forget.” It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
When God forgives, He at once restores.
– Theodore Epp
Forgiveness | Restoration
A great many people want to bring their faith, their works, their good deeds to Him for salvation. Bring your sins, and He will bear them away into the wilderness of forgetfulness, and you will never see them again.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores – more than abundantly – what it takes away.
– Jim Elliot
Grace | Forgiveness | Restoration
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
– Billy Graham
Forgiveness
If God did not forgive the Christian who confesses and turns away from sin, God would become unrighteous by holding in contempt Christ’s atoning work, whose purpose was to uphold God’s glory.
– Daniel Fuller
Forgiveness | Confession
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
– A. W. Pink
Forgiveness | Grief | Joy
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness | Hatred | Enemies
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– G.K. Chesterton
Love | Faith | Forgiveness
The trouble is, people do not know that Christ is a Deliverer. They forget that the Son of God came to keep them from sin as as well as to forgive it.
– Dwight L. Moody
Forgiveness
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
– Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
– C.S. Lewis
Forgiveness
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don’t understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
– Rick Warren
Forgiveness | The Future | Trust
I know for me, going back the person I’ve bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn’t it interesting that “humiliating” has the same root word as “humility”? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn’t feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it’s not easy.
– Chip Ingram
Humility | Forgiveness
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath
Satan | Repentance | Forgiveness
Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn’t mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God’s care.
– Erwin Lutzer
Forgiveness | Confession
There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
– Charles H. Brent
Prayer | Forgiveness | Intercession
God forgets your confessed sins; so should you.
– Woodrow Kroll
Forgiveness
Wherever God pardons sin, he subdues it… If the fetters of sin be broken off, and we walk at liberty in the ways of God, this is a blessed sign we are pardoned.
– Thomas Watson
Forgiveness | Liberty
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness | The Heart
You are nothing better than deceitful hypocrites if you harbor in your minds a single unforgiving thought. There are some sins which may be in the heart, and yet you may be saved. But you cannot be saved unless you are forgiving. If we do not choose to forgive, we choose to be damned.
– Charles Spurgeon
Forgiveness
God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can ‘just forgive’ the perpetrator. But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
– Tim Keller
Forgiveness
Forgiveness on the part of God always has a judicial basis, not an emotional basis, and represents an attitude of God based upon the satisfaction of His righteousness in some way.
– John F. Walvoord
Forgiveness | Justice
Forgive thyself little and others much.
– Robert Leighton
Forgiveness | Humility
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Be who you are and be that well.
– Francis de Sales
Friendship | Forgiveness | Quarreling
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
– Augustine
Forgiveness | Salvation
Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
– C.S. Lewis
Forgiveness
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
– Dwight L. Moody
Prayer | Forgiveness
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.
– Jonathan Goforth
Relationships | Forgiveness
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.
– Charles H. Brent
Forgiveness | Fire
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
– Assorted Authors
Forgiveness
If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
– Amy Carmichael
Forgiveness | Confession
To be able to look into God’s face, and know with the knowledge of faith that there is nothing between the soul and Him, is to experience the fullest peace the soul can know. Whatever else pardon may be, it is above all things admission into full fellowship with God.
– Charles H. Brent
Faith | Forgiveness | Fellowship
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
– C.S. Lewis
Forgiveness
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
– Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is negative. Righteousness is positive. Forgiveness is you may go. Righteousness is you may come.
– Tim Keller
Forgiveness | Righteousness
The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
– Ravi Zacharias
LoveJusticeForgiveness
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
– Assorted Authors
Forgiveness
Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit – a very common symptom indeed among God’s children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.
– Watchman Nee
ForgivenessBitterness
The choice to withhold forgiveness slowly but effectively destroys family unity.
– Patricia Ennis
Forgiveness | Unity
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
– George Herbert
Forgiveness
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
– Josh McDowell
Forgiveness | Redemption | The Cross
Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned, that the curse should be laid on His head and the crown set on ours.
– Thomas Watson
Forgiveness
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.
– Samuel Rutherford
Overcoming | Prayer | Forgiveness
As long as you live on earth, you won’t see the end of injustices. Yet God desires for you to let go of injustices and hold on to His grace. Only He can give you the power to forgive those who have hurt you the deepest.
– Paul Chappell
Forgiveness
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
– J. C. Ryle
Prayer | Forgiveness | The Heart
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
– Dave Hunt
Sin | Forgiveness
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
– John Bunyan
Forgiveness
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don’t have to play defensive games anymore. We don’t have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.
– Jerry Bridges
Forgiveness | Assurance | The Cross
Our forgiving others is not a cause of God’s forgiving us, but it is a condition without which He will not forgive us (Mt. 6:12).
– Thomas Watson
Forgiveness
Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.
– Thomas Fuller
Forgiveness | Revenge
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
– J. C. Ryle
Sin | Forgiveness
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
– Hannah More
Forgiveness
I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
– Charles Spurgeon
Forgiveness
Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.
– Thomas Adams
Forgiveness
Every pardon a sinner hath is written in Christ’s blood.
– Thomas Watson
Forgiveness
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says “sue them for their dough.”
– Billy Sunday
Forgiveness
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
– Tim Keller
Forgiveness | Mercy
Pity, forbearance, long-sufferance, fair interpretation, excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are certainly our duty; and he that does not so is an unjust person.
– Jeremy Taylor
Forgiveness | Gentleness
We need not climb up into heaven to see whether our sins are forgiven: let us look into our hearts, and see if we can forgive others. If we can, we need not doubt but God as forgiven us.
– Thomas Watson
Forgiveness
The offender never pardons.
– George Herbert
Forgiveness
Know all and you will pardon all.
– Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness