Top 1200 Christian Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks to show his spirit, to meet the challenges, hardships, and sorrows of life in the light of that spirit, but who, though he is sure of many Christian truths, feels that he cannot honestly and conscientiously 'sign on the dotted line' that he believes certain theological ideas about what some branches of the Church dogmatize.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to place my trust in Christ. Salvation cannot be earned by doing good works or going to church, and can't be automatically passed on from Christian parents. Salvation is a free gift from God, who sent His Son Jesus Christ to die in our place.

I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian Sámis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

If the Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses effectiveness in this life. If the non-Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses much in this life, and everything and the next one. As Jesus put it, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?"

When I first became a Christian I thought I would be glad when I got farther on, and got established. I thought I would be so strong and there would not be any danger; but the longer I live, the more danger I see there is. The only hope of any Christian...is to keep hold of Christ.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.

Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.