Quotes on Guilt & Forgiveness
Christian quotes on Guilt & Forgiveness — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
There are two ways to do good: to give and to forgive.
Augustine of Hippo
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller
Forgiveness means allowing the other person not to have to be God.
Henri Nouwen
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
Craig Groeschel
My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior!
John Newton
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
Tim Keller
When you forgive someone, you set a prisoner free, but then you discover that the real prisoner was you.
Lewis Smedes
How often you have fallen into great distress through your own will, when your blinded mind mistook death for life. But he who loves us eternally sets right what we confuse, brings joy where we grieve ourselves, and leads us where we go astray.
Paul Gerhardt
When the Lord takes away your sins, you never see them again. He throws them into the deepest sea - forgiven and forgotten. I even believe he puts up a sign over it: No Fishing Allowed!
Corrie ten Boom
We are more lost than we want to admit, and we are more deeply redeemed than we dare to hope.
Søren Kierkegaard
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
C.S. Lewis
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.
Blaise Pascal
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Richard Sibbes
I believe that even our mistakes and errors are not in vain, and that it is no more difficult for God to cope with them than with our supposed good deeds.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am weaker and more sinful than I ever before believed, but through Jesus Christ I'm more loved and accepted than I ever dared hope.
Alistair Begg
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.
Diane H. Moody
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. Lewis
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
Craig Groeschel
For this reason, because they are loved, sinners are fair; but they are not loved because they are fair.
Martin Luther
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
Tim Keller
I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again.
Desmond Tutu
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
When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Eugene Peterson
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
Andy Stanley
I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.
Beth Moore
Religion says, "Clean up your mess!" Jesus says, "I cleaned up your mess!
Perry Noble
How merciful the Lord is, that he remains faithful even when we do not believe! He answers our prayer even when we torment ourselves with doubts and dishonor his name.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Jesus throws our sins into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19) and puts up a sign on the shore: No fishing!
Corrie ten Boom
Why should we hold on to the sins of others, while our own sins are cast into the depths of the sea?
Corrie ten Boom
A person rests in the forgiveness of sin when the thought of God does not remind him of the sin, but of the fact that it is forgiven.
Søren Kierkegaard
In the midst of my greatest failure, I discovered God in his greatest power.
Gordon MacDonald
God will never come back to forgiven guilt again — it is settled once and for all.
Peter Strauch
I want only the best for other people, but I am jealous when they get it. Thank you for accepting me with all my contradictions.
Richard J. Foster
There must be no one in the whole world, however much he may have sinned, who has to leave you without finding mercy with you, if he sought mercy.
Francis of Assisi
People quoted here
Henri Nouwen, Augustine of Hippo, Hans Peter Royer, Tim Keller, Craig Groeschel, John Newton, Lewis Smedes, Paul Gerhardt, Corrie ten Boom, Søren Kierkegaard, C.S. Lewis, Henry Ward Beecher
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