 Perhaps the reason you feel guilty is because you are guilty. The answer to your guilt problem is not rationalization or self-justification, but forgiveness. The price of forgiveness is repentance. Without it there is no forgiveness and no relief from the reality of guilt. Author: R.C. Sproul
Source: The Intimate Marriage, p. 127. |
| 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. Author: Jim Bakker |
| I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. Author: Jim Bakker |
| God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do. Author: Jim Bakker |
| What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God. Author: David F. Wells |
| I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy. Author: Chip Ingram |
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| God forgets your confessed sins; so should you. Author: Woodrow Kroll |
| Forgiveness on the part of God always has a judicial basis, not an emotional basis, and represents an attitude of God based upon the satisfaction of His righteousness in some way. Author: John F. Walvoord |
| As long as you live on earth, you won't see the end of injustices. Yet God desires for you to let go of injustices and hold on to His grace. Only He can give you the power to forgive those who have hurt you the deepest. Author: Paul Chappell |
| The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder. Author: D.L. Moody |
| The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough." Author: Billy Sunday |
| I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
