Christianity Forgiveness Quotes

#1. The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Every new morning brings new mercy, new love and new grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Leo Tolstoy

#4. While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.

Thomas C. Oden

#5. The dreadful joy Thy Son has sent
Is heavier than any care;
We find, as Cain his punishment,
Our pardon more than we can bear.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. We marvel at God's mercy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Man confesses God forgives

ABC

#8. Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness.

Jim George

#9. Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C.S. Lewis

#11. And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.

Kristen McNulty

#12. How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own?

D.R. Silva

#13. values of Christianity - sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness - because

Paul Kalanithi

#14. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake

#15. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Martin Luther

#16. The act of extending forgiveness and asking for forgiveness must come from our heart.

Sara Dormon

#17. You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

Max Lucado

#18. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75

William Kilpatrick

#19. The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Thomas Jefferson

#20. We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Horatius Bonar

#21. The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell.

William Booth

#22. Life is an adventure in forgiveness

Norman Cousins

#23. Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#24. Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Ann Voskamp

#25. No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. He forgives without any strings attached.

Jestoni Revealed

#27. Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.

Patricia Heaton

#28. Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

Thomas C. Oden

#29. Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.

Geoffrey Wood

#30. It seems that in our society Christianity has made permanent inroads in the eye-for-an-eye department but has made little progress on the practical application of forgiveness.

Steve Toltz

#31. They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.

Geoffrey Wood

#32. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Criss Jami

#33. The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

William Booth

#34. Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Paul David Tripp

#35. Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.

Thomas C. Oden

#36. The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

Louis Zamperini

#37. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.

Katie Kiesler

#38. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Andy Stanley

#39. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

C.S. Lewis

#40. Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

Ed Dobson

#43. God of great mercy!
God of great compassion!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

D.R. Silva

#45. You told me that Christianity is the religion of peace."
"Ah, no. It is the faith for forgiveness.

Neal Stephenson

#46. There is grace for forgiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. Thank God for forgiveness of my sins.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. As' is the most difficult word in a Christian's life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.

John Kramer

#49. We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY

Sheila Walsh

#51. Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#52. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.

William MacDonald

#53. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.

Betsy Cornwell