Max Lucado Quotes

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

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

I sinned daily, and Jesus still loves me. It's all washed, and if the Lord doesn't judge me and it's all forgiven, then no other man, woman, animal - anything, I don't know - can judge me!

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

We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

God's capacity to forgive is greater than our capacity to sin; while our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. It's a message revealing the radical contrast between the sinful heart of mankind and the gracious heart of mankind's Creator.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

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

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.

I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.