Quotes About Being Forgiven

#1. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. Redemption is reliant on being forgiven

R.E. Vance

#3. I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven.

Inio Asano

#4. Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.

Sara Dormon

#5. Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Bear Grylls

#7. Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it's more about you than it's about the person who's being forgiven

Cynthia Hand

#8. So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

Henry B. Eyring

#10. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#11. Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

Frederick Buechner

#12. There was no way to compare the feeling of being forgiven to anything else in this world.

Sarah Bruni

#13. Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.

John Piper

#14. It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

Henry B. Eyring

#15. I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful
because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Aldous Huxley

#17. Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

Richard Rohr

#18. Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.

Elizabeth Peters

#19. All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

Tove Jansson

#20. Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

Charles Spurgeon

#21. If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.

Tana French

#22. Allowing one's self to be forgiven is just as hard as forgiving. Harder in some ways. Because to be forgiven, one first has to admit to being at fault.

Laura Lippman

#23. I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.

Richard C. Armitage

#24. Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

Stephen Richards

#25. He did the same in the morning and didn't mind that Steel struggled against him. Steel needed to be subdued first, but he never said no, and he always came.

Maybe Steel thought he was being punished.

Maybe he thought the whipping was forgiven.

Aleksandr Voinov

#26. You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

Colleen Coble

#27. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

#28. The Sermon on the Mount proves that sin is a condition of our inmost being; although our sinful nature is atoned for in the cross and our failures freely forgiven, we must never willingly cultivate habits that Scripture condemns.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#29. Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Charles Spurgeon

#30. The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Oswald Chambers

#31. The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." - Oswald Chambers

Randy Alcorn

#32. Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

Maggie Stiefvater

#33. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

Stephen Richards

#34. That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?

Emily Franklin

#35. The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

Hasan Of Basra

#36. This is what the Church is all about. It is a redemptive fellowship of forgiven sinners who are in the slow, difficult process of being transformed into saints by the grace of God.

Stanley S. Harakas

#37. They'll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.

Eugene H. Peterson

#38. evidently there was such a thing as "the childhood best friends law," by which any relationship involving two such individuals was immediately forgiven regardless of circumstance and then romanticized beyond any reasonable human being's suspension of disbelief.

Alice Keats

#39. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.

Stephen Richards

#40. To be forgiven is to be loved

Brene Brown

#41. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Stephen Richards