“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
1 John 2:1
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
C.S. Lewis
Consider this Lewis quote with my little adaptation: “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive..” our children “…Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honoré de Balzac
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
Ephesians 1:7
“You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin.”
Psalm 85:2
“For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.”
Psalm 86:5
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1
“The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
Psalm 103:8-12
“I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.”
Matthew 18:22
“Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.’”
Luke 23:34
“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.”
Colossians 3:12-13
“We find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again. We, forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offense and we discover the old resentment blazing away if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offenses but for one offense.”
C.S. Lewis
“We must forgive all our enemies or be damned.”
C.S. Lewis
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark Twain
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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.”
Saint Augustine
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note–torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”
Unknown
“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
William Blake
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
Lewis B. Smedes
