Charles Williams Quotes

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Forgiveness is God's command.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

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

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Our God is a forgiving God.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

All men are equal at the foot of the Cross.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.