Top 100 Forgiving God Quotes
#1. Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just
Pope Francis
#2. As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.
Ralph Venning
#3. Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.
Janet Graber
#4. The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.
Miroslav Volf
#6. Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
Pope John Paul II
#7. Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
Miriam Toews
#8. He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.
Nicholas Evans
#9. Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system.
Neal Stephenson
#10. know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet (b) be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.
Frederick Buechner
#11. 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
#12. God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#13. Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.
Mike Huckabee
#14. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#15. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#16. O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,
Evelyn Waugh
#17. 31 g Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 h Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, i forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Anonymous
#18. Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.
Jerome Lejeune
#19. The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
Roland Barthes
#20. My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
Billy Graham
#21. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.
Korie Robertson
#22. 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
#23. Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.
C. Scott Grow
#24. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.
David Jeremiah
#25. It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
Rebecca West
#26. 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
#27. I pray to you God to forgive me from all my sins, to allow me to glorify you in every possible way.
Mohamed Atta
#28. I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#29. Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
Saadi
#31. He has forbidden you only carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine; also any flesh that is consecrated other than in the name of God. But for one who is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, it is no sin. For God is forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#32. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.
Joyce Meyer
#33. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Paul The Apostle
#34. As the children of God, we think of Him as a perfect, almighty, loving, caring and forgiving persona. We pray to Him to bless us and our food, and to fix our troubles. Will we ever become the grown-ups of God?
Vinko Vrbanic
#35. 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
#36. The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does, even if you murdered or robbed, ya it's wrong, but God loves, take one step toward him he'll take two toward you, even when all else fails, God'll support you
Nas
#37. If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
Anne Graham Lotz
#38. We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
Robert William Dale
#39. 110Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.
Anonymous
#40. Spend the next few days preparing for the year ahead: Forgive everyone, let go of everything, let God take charge.
Amen.
Marianne Williamson
#41. I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.
Susan Sarandon
#42. The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
Teresa Of Avila
#43. We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Elbert Hubbard
#44. As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.
Henry B. Eyring
#45. God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#46. God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives ... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never.
Mother Angelica
#47. Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#48. God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.
Bob Goff
#49. God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us.
Dan B. Allender
#50. If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.
Simone Weil
#51. When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.
Helmut Thielicke
#52. Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
Paula Rinehart
#53. We obey God not because we are afraid of what He will do to us if we do not. Rather, we obey Him because we are moved by all that He has done for us in Jesus Christ. He has lovingly elected us and sprinkled us with the sin-forgiving, grace-abounding blood of Jesus.
Anthony J. Carter
#55. God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Pope Francis
#56. It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.
Alistair Begg
#57. Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God loves me. I do know that God forgives me. It helps me in my every day life because there's nothing anyone can do to me that I can't forgive them for.
Mark Teixeira
#58. No matter how many flaws we have, our God is so forgiving and understanding. He'll never leave you or forsake you. So that brings peace to me.
Adrian Peterson
#59. I can never forgive God for having invented the French
Peter Ustinov
#60. Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
Joseph Haydn
#61. What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.
Charles Spurgeon
#62. At the door he turned and looked back. She stood, facing away from him, the sunlight from the window enshrouding her in an unmerited halo of gold. Perhaps, he thought, that was how God saw all His children. Selfish and fallen, yes. But in the forgiving light of His Son, each wore an unmerited halo
Julie Klassen
#63. You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
Glen Duncan
#64. Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
Alistair Begg
#65. When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#67. When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load ... I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.
Johnny Hunt
#68. God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
Rabia Basri
#70. A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.
Jim George
#71. Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.
Joyce Meyer
#72. This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#73. Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
Tullian Tchividjian
#74. 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
#75. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Robert H. Schuller
#76. God's forgiving and forgetting heart doesn't document every mistake we commit.
Euginia Herlihy
#77. I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.
Dwight L. Moody
#78. At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
John Ciardi
#79. Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!
Pope Francis
#80. Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?
Thomm Quackenbush
#81. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
Maya Angelou
#82. Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
Andrew Murray
#83. If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.
Henri Nouwen
#84. Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#85. God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.
Francis Chan
#86. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.
Oscar Romero
#87. God is constant. Always forgiving. Always loving. Never changing.
Jefferson Bethke
#88. If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."
Kevin Sorbo
#89. Its best, the church administers the sacraments by feeding, healing, forgiving, comforting, and welcoming home the people God loves. At its worst, the church withholds the sacraments in an attempt to lock God in a theology, a list of rules, a doctrinal statement, a building. But our
Rachel Held Evans
#90. 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
#91. You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.
Johnny Hunt
#92. In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#93. It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#94. God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.
Pope Francis
#95. Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.
Poemen
#96. True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.
Billy Graham
#97. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.
Billy Graham
#98. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#99. God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
Heinrich Heine
#100. Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.
Kevin DeYoung
