Top 1200 Christian Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian - one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?

The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator of Christ" and that if he wishes to bear that noble title worthily he must above all do as Christ charges us in the Gospel: We must oppose or deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow him.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover. There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).

Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scriptures in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.