Top 1200 Christian Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.

I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Have a short memory and a lot of forgiveness. Especially us girls who don't forget a thing. Move on.

Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Christianity is not just involved with "salvation", but with the total man in the total world. The Christian message begins with the existence of God forever, and then with creation. It does not begin with salvation. We must be thankful for salvation, but the Christian message is more than that. Man has a value because he is made in the image of God.

It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?

In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually we become what we say we are - followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.

Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.