Top 100 Forgiveness God Quotes
#1. Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.
Max Lucado
#2. If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.
Roy Lessin
#3. Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.
Charles Brent
#4. To reconfess past sins would be to doubt the reality of God's forgiveness. God is not like us. When God forgives, it is once and for all - complete and permanent.
Redemptorists
#5. But neither the mountains nor the people can rob you of the forgiveness God has given...unless you let them.
Mesu Andrews
#6. It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Monica Johnson
#8. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
Benjamin Hoadly
#9. I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.
Kirk Cameron
#10. Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.
Max Lucado
#11. The forgiveness of God is a gift to be received, not a reward to be merited.
John R.W. Stott
#13. Grace isn't just forgiveness, it is forgiveness fueled by surrender.
Amy E. Spiegel
#14. God's grace comes first. His love is prevenient to our response;his forgiveness awakens our repentance.
James Runcie
#15. the fear of God" is increased by an experience of God's grace and forgiveness. What it describes is a loving, joyful awe and wonder before the greatness of God.
Timothy J. Keller
#16. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.
Criss Jami
#17. I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.
Rick Warren
#18. Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
Joel Osteen
#19. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it.
Seth Haines
#20. I don't want God's forgiveness. And He's not getting mine.
~Harry Silver
Janet Sketchley
#21. God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Ava Gardner
#22. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#23. In the meantime, we must hold fast to the truth of who God is and His unchanging nature: God is good. His plans are good. His requirements are good. His salvation is good. His grace is good. His forgiveness is good. His restoration is good.
Lysa TerKeurst
#24. Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton
#25. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
#27. Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness attached to ribbons of joy. You will find love wrapped in sparkling gems.
Joan Clayton
#28. If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
R.C. Sproul
#29. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Criss Jami
#30. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.
Lex Luger
#31. Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.
John Climacus
#32. God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.
Kirk Cameron
#33. 110Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#34. God doesn't care how well you can preach about forgiveness ... what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.
Steve Maraboli
#35. Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
Dan Brown
#36. God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
Matt Chandler
#37. Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves
Muhammad Ali
#38. The church was designed to proclaim God's love and forgiveness to all people and declare that Jesus Christ came to eradicate sin in people's hearts.
Billy Graham
#39. How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.
Tupac Shakur
#40. To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It's not primarily about good feelings. It's not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It's primarily about the presence of God.
Timothy Keller
#41. The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.
Marion D. Hanks
#42. God's Word in the New Testament reveals the depth of His love and forgiveness through Christ.
Andrew Wommack
#44. You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God - the forgiveness, the cleansing, the life, that come from Christ by faith.
Alexander MacLaren
#45. Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#46. Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#47. There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness
Pope Francis
#48. Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#49. What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God - we change in the very act of rebellion - and there is no guarantee we will ever come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you even want it later, especially if it involves repentance?
Philip Yancey
#50. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...
Lucy Beckett
#51. You're following the Lord wholeheartedly, yet you're missing out on the forgiveness part. God's not just in the business of saving us from our sins. He's also in the business of forgiving those sins and putting them as far as the east is from the west.
Jody Hedlund
#52. It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact; but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.
D.L. Moody
#53. God's Mercy and Forgiveness is available for everyone however, your part is to accept it and mend your ways
Josephine Akhagbeme
#54. So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.
Jennifer Mardoll
#55. This is still the age of grace. God's offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: "Now is the accepted time" [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].
Billy Graham
#56. When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
August Wilson
#58. But the true miracle of the resurrection wasn't so much the raising. Is something like that too hard for the God who made the universe? The true miracle is in the forgiving. And though we are bruised and burned, blind and broken, we are forgiven.
Lisa Samson
#59. Forgive? It's not easy, Millicent. But I must forgive. Even if he never say he sorry. I do my part. Leave Boone's part to God. That not for me to control. So, not for me to worry about.
Julie Cantrell
#60. God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
Charles R. Swindoll
#61. We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.
Billy Graham
#62. Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.
John Fante
#63. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
#64. God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.
Marianne Williamson
#65. Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness,
Pope Francis
#66. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#68. Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
Marianne Williamson
#70. Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope Francis
#71. Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
Meir Soloveichik
#72. God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ...
Leo Tolstoy
#73. We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don't know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
Pope Francis
#75. God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves?
Greg Gordon
#76. The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.
Ravi Zacharias
#77. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul
#78. Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and
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church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.
Michael Richard Stosic
#79. Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.
Franklin Graham
#80. Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
Shane Claiborne
#81. If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: "I did not deserve God's forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.
Paul Silway
#82. Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
Colleen McCullough
#83. Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
Joyce Meyer
#84. Put to death? I thought God was supposed to be all about forgiveness, not the death penalty.
Jessica Verdi
#85. The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive.
Billy Graham
#86. God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.
Joel Osteen
#87. Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
Rumi
#88. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.
Anna M. Aquino
#89. Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
Confucius
#90. I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#91. 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
#92. What freedom and hope is found in Christ! We don't need to feel beautiful about ourselves to find happiness! In fact, we're better off not even thinking about ourselves. Rather, God has offered us in Jesus Christ forgiveness, hope, freedom from sin and a joy that never ends.
Carolyn Mahaney
#93. He arches his back because when you forgive, the body says, Thank God.
Edmond Manning
#94. Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
Jerry Bridges
#95. You can. It's not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of doing it - making the decision to bend that iron will of yours in God's direction so that He can hear your prayers and unleash blessings.
Julie Lessman
#96. Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#97. We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage ... and we'll git what we ast for. They ain't no gar'ntee thet we ain't go'n have no troubles and ain't go'n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God'll forgive us if'n we ast Him to.
Olive Ann Burns
#99. To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
Martin Luther
#100. Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
