Max Lucado Quotes

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

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

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.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Forgotten is forgiven.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Forgive everyone everything.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

There are no unforgivable sins.

Forgiveness is God's command.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.