Rudolfo Anaya Quotes

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

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

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

Grace and mercy are never deserved.

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

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."

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.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.

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

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

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.

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.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

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

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

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.

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

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

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!