Top 69 God Is Forgiving Quotes
#2. God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
Rachel Caine
#3. 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
#4. Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.
Pope Francis
#5. 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
#6. Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope Francis
#7. Do you really want to know the simplest secret to a happy life and a positive attitude? It's believing that God is on your side; that He's actively working on your behalf, that he loves you and is capable of completely forgiving you.
Toni Sorenson
#8. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
Bill Hicks
#9. Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
Joyce Meyer
#10. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.
Paul David Tripp
#11. All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
Neal Shusterman
#12. Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.
Kevin DeYoung
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. God is constant. Always forgiving. Always loving. Never changing.
Jefferson Bethke
#19. 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
#20. Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.
Lewis B. Smedes
#21. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.
Patrick Madrid
#22. When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.
Herbert McCabe
#24. Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#27. It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.
Ambrose
#28. Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles 17:13). Therefore you can show mercy to your spouse by forgiving whenever he (she) does or says something that hurts or disturbs you.
Stormie O'martian
#29. 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
#30. The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#31. By forgiving, we can move forward, knowing that God has good things in store for us. And the heaviness of spirit is lifted, and relief washes over us after we've forgiven. A new sense of hope and expectancy rises. I forgive you. Do you need to say those words today?
Barbour Publishing Inc.
#32. Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.
E'yen A. Gardner
#33. But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.
Elizabeth Smart
#34. I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.
Sonia Sotomayor
#35. God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
Miriam Toews
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
Billy Graham
#48. 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
#49. O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,
Evelyn Waugh
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system.
Neal Stephenson
#54. 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
#55. God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
Paula Rinehart
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.
Jim George
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.
Robert H. Schuller
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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