Spiritual Forgiveness Quotes

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

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.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

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

To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.

For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.

It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.

May the good God pardon all good men.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

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.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?