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Found 52 quotes matching your search:  It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Satan, Repentance, Forgiveness | To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Forgiveness | | The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Christianity, Discouragement, Prayer | | The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough." Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Forgiveness | | Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain
Topics: Love | | Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. Author: C.S. Lewis
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| | To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Christians, Forgiveness | | I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Forgiveness | | You are nothing better than deceitful hypocrites if you harbor in your minds a single unforgiving thought. There are some sins which may be in the heart, and yet you may be saved. But you cannot be saved unless you are forgiving. If we do not choose to forgive, we choose to be damned. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Sermons, 13.718.
Topics: Forgiveness | | I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Prayer, Forgiveness | | Forgiveness is not that stripe which says, "I will forgive, but not forget." It is not to bury the hatchet with the handle sticking out of the ground, so you can grasp it the minute you want it. Author: D.L. Moody
Source: Christian History, n. 25.
Topics: Forgiveness | | If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Justice | | The trouble is, people do not know that Christ is a Deliverer. They forget that the Son of God came to keep them from sin as as well as to forgive it. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Forgiveness | | Look at Him at Gethsemane, sweating as it were great drops of blood; look at Him on the cross, crucified between two thieves; hear that piercing cry, "Father, Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." And as you look into that face, as you look into those wounds on His feet or His hands, will you say He has not the power to save you? Will you say He has not the power so redeem you? Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: The Cross, Salvation | | If God did not forgive the Christian who confesses and turns away from sin, God would become unrighteous by holding in contempt Christ's atoning work, whose purpose was to uphold God's glory. Author: Daniel Fuller
Source: The Unity of the Bible
Topics: Forgiveness, Confession | | For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins--but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven. Author: Dave Hunt
Topics: Justice, Salvation | | Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him - His slaves, owning no master other than Himself. Author: F.B. Meyer
Topics: Atonement, Consecration | | When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. Author: Francis Bacon
Topics: Friendship, Laughter | | Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Children, Hypocrisy | | To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Love, Faith, Forgiveness | | He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Forgiveness | | 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. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Forgiveness | | Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Selfishness | | 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
Topics: Forgiveness, Enemies | | I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us. Author: Jim Bakker
Topics: Forgiveness | | One way to recognize whether we suffer from this disconnection is to look at our concern for people who are dirty... people who are "other"... people who don't fit the core group's image. The ravages of sin are not pleasant--but they are what Jesus came to forgive and heal. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" (Luke 19:10). Yet Christians often hesitate to reach out to those who are different. They want God to clean the fish before they catch them. Author: Jim Cymbala
Source: Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Topics: Evangelism | | His brokenhearted cry on the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do," shows God's heart toward sinners. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: The Cross | | The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice - and so the pain - of the cross. Author: John Stott
Topics: Justice, The Cross | | Also, forgive yourself for past sins and hurts you have caused others. You can't pay people back, so ask God to. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | Forgive God if you are angry with Him because your life didn't turn out the way you thought it should. God is always just. There may be things you don't understand, but God loves you, and people make a serious mistake when they don't receive help from the only One who can truly help them. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Contentment | | Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | Who are you helping most when you forgive the person who hurt you? Actually, you're helping yourself more than the other person. I always looked at forgiving people who hurt me as being really hard. I thought it seemed so unfair for them to receive forgiveness when I had gotten hurt. I got pain, and they got freedom without having to pay for the pain they caused. Now I realize that I'm helping myself when I choose to forgive. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | You may even need to forgive a situation or an object--the post office, bank, a certain store that may have cheated you, a car that always gave you trouble, etc. Get rid of all poison that comes from bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | Many people ruin their health and their lives by taking the poison of bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Matthew 18:23-35 tells us that if we do not forgive people, we get turned over to the torturers. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Health, Forgiveness | | Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Forgiveness | | Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Fellowship | | Jesus, as He was going up the hill, fell beneath the load. Loss of blood, breaking of heart, weary in body, blind from his own blood that came from a crown of thorns. And Jesus said "I can't make it any further." Yet He climbed on up to Calvary and stretched out his arms as he hung on the cross, and said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." He went on when He couldn't go on. He finished it when He couldn't, but He did. Author: Lester Roloff
Topics: Salvation, Perseverance | | We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Topics: Forgiveness, Hatred, Enemies | | Whenever I see myself before God and realize something of what my blessed Lord has done for me at Calvary, I am ready to forgive anybody anything. I cannot withhold it. I do not even want to withhold it. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: The Cross, Forgiveness | | I can forgive a man for a bad sermon, I can forgive the preacher almost anything if he gives me a sense of God, if he gives me something for my soul, if he gives me the sense that, though he is inadequate himself, he is handling something which is very great and very glorious, if he gives me some dim glimpse of the majesty and the glory of God, the love of Christ my Saviour, and the magnificence of the Gospel. If he does that I am his debtor, and I am profoundly grateful to him. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: Preaching | | If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. Author: Max Lucado
Topics: Life | | 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
Topics: Forgiveness | | 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. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Mercy | | If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes. Forgive thyself little and others much. Author: Robert Leighton
Topics: Humility | | Forgive thyself little, and others much. Author: Robert Leighton
Topics: Forgiveness, Humility | | Do you have a prayer that needs answered - then forgive. Author: Rod Parsley
Topics: Forgiveness | | Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. Author: Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Suffering, Sin, Trials | | He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Forgiveness | | Our forgiving others is not a cause of God's forgiving us, but it is a condition without which He will not forgive us (Mt. 6:12). Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The Lord's Prayer, 1692.
Topics: Forgiveness | | We need not climb up into heaven to see whether our sins are forgiven: let us look into our hearts, and see if we can forgive others. If we can, we need not doubt but God as forgiven us. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Forgiveness | | Christ is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven. Author: William Law
Topics: Christ, Restoration, Murder |
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Found 72 quotes containing your search: | After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Forgiveness, Grief, Joy | | It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us. Author: Alan Redpath
Topics: Sin, Confession | Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Forgiveness | Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.
- Paris Reidhead Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Atonement, Idolatry | | God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. Author: Augustine
Topics: Repentance | | 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. Author: Augustine
Topics: Forgiveness, Salvation | | Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Forgiveness | | Forgiveness does not mean excusing. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Forgiveness | | Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved. Author: C.S. Lewis
Topics: Forgiveness | | Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. Author: Charles H. Brent
Topics: Peace | | You are hanging over the mouth of hell by a single thread, and that thread is breaking. Only a gasp for breath, only a stopping of the heart for a single moment, and you will be in an eternal world, without God, without hope, without forgiveness. Oh, can you face it? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Hell | | I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate "the pearl oyster"--A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but "cover" it with a precious substance extracted out of its own life, by which it turns the intruder into a pearl! Oh, that we could do so with the provocations we receive from our fellow Christians, so that pearls of patience, gentleness, and forgiveness might be bred within us by that which otherwise would have harmed us. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Godliness | | Although our sins are forgiven and we now have the power to overcome temptation, we will forever struggle with sin because we still have what the Bible calls the flesh. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Temptation | | Okay, here's how to do relationships - be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God, in Christ, also has forgiven you. Author: Chip Ingram
Topics: Relationships | | 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
Topics: Humility, Forgiveness | | Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Forgiveness, The Heart | | The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Forgiveness | | Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness. Author: Dave Hunt
Topics: Sin, Forgiveness | | 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
Topics: Forgiveness, Choices | | Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topics: Grace, Discipleship, Confession | | Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Topics: Enemies, Grace | | Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care. Author: Erwin Lutzer
Topics: Forgiveness, Confession | | To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin's power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness and peace. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Fear, Peace, Conviction | | We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Kindness, Forgiveness | | A principle is one thing; a maxim or rule is another. A principle requires liberality; a rule says, "one tenth." A principle says, "forgive"; a rule defines "seven times." Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Justice, Liberty | | When I say, "God is love," what do I mean by it? Why this, that God sent His only-begotten Son that we might have life in Him. We still carry about the old nature; but, blessed be God, many a time as Satan has caught me, he has never destroyed me; there is the propitiation,--I am inside, sheltered by the blood, and forgiven. Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Love, Satan | | Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Forgiveness | | There's no sight like seeing the light from Calvary kiss a human face as it fills the heart with the assurance of Divine forgiveness. Author: Gipsy Smith
Topics: The Cross, Assurance | | Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Forgiveness, The Heart | | A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Forgiveness | | God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: God, Mothers, Forgiveness | | The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more." Author: Horatius Bonar
Topics: Salvation, The Gospel | | Free and warm reception into the divine favor is the strongest of all motives in leading a man to seek conformity to Him who has thus freely forgiven him all trespasses. Author: Horatius Bonar
Source: God's Way of Holiness.
Topics: Holiness | | Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven. Author: J.C. Ryle
Topics: Sin, Forgiveness | | In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: The Heart, Justice, Sin | | The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: Forgiveness, Assurance, The Cross | | 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
Topics: Forgiveness, Responsibility | | Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away. Author: Jim Elliot
Topics: Grace, Forgiveness, Restoration | | No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. Author: John Bunyan
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Forgiveness | | 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
Topics: Forgiveness, Justice | | Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy. Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace. Author: John Owen
Topics: Heaven, Salvation | | When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Hatred | | And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to Him for grace to do better in the future. Author: John Stott
Topics: Preaching, Failure | | Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience. Author: John Stott
Source: The Baptism and Fullness of the Holy Spirit, Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1964, p. 28.
Topics: Baptism | | It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, "Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to." We are ashamed, are we not, of things we've done in the past? Nobody is free who is unforgiven. Instead of being able to look God in the face or to look one another in the face, we want to run away and hide when our conscience troubles us. Author: John Stott
Source: The Up-to-the-Minute Relevance of the Resurrection, Preaching Today, Tape 79.
Topics: Conscience | | To evangelize is to spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scriptures, and that as the reigning Lord he now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit to all who repent and believe. Author: John Stott
Source: The Biblical Basis of Evangelism, p. 69.
Topics: Evangelism | | I preached on the righteousness of the law and the righteousness of faith. While I was speaking, several dropped down as dead and among the rest such a cry was heard of sinners groaning for the righteousness of faith that it almost drowned my voice. But many of these soon lifted up their heads with joy and broke out into thanksgiving, being assured they now had the desire of their soul - the forgiveness of their sins. Author: John Wesley
Topics: Evangelism, Righteousness, Thankfulness | | If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. Author: Josh McDowell
Topics: Forgiveness, Redemption, The Cross | | I also think it's hard to hate one person but love another. It's hard to treat anybody right when our heart isn't right. Even people you want to love may be suffering from your bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Love, Hatred | | Remember, regaining your mind is a process. We all fail at one time or another. God knows our weaknesses; that's why He gave us 1 John 1:9. Just ask for forgiveness and envision the blood of Jesus washing away your sin. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Weakness | | It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Author: Karl Barth
Topics: Salvation | | If you're a follower of Jesus but you feel distant from him during this era of your life, if you're having difficulty resting easy in his forgiveness, could it be because you're blatantly refusing to let go of your animosity toward another person. Author: Lee Strobel
Topics: Bitterness, Relationships | | Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. Author: Lee Strobel
Topics: Confession | | Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in. Author: Lee Strobel
Topics: Confession, The Cross, Eternal Life | | Forgiveness is God's command. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Forgiveness | | A Christian is not simply a person who is forgiven and goes to heaven. A Christian, in terms of his or her deepest identity, is a saint, a spiritually born child of God, a divine masterpiece, a child of light, a citizen of heaven. Author: Neil T. Anderson
Topics: Christians | | Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Forgiveness, Patience | | One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it. Author: Ravi Zacharias
Topics: Scripture, Heaven, Forgiveness | | The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. Author: Ravi Zacharias
Topics: Love, Justice, Forgiveness | | And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Forgiveness, Grace | | Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Forgiveness, The Future, Trust | | Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Salvation, The Future | | When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: Holy Spirit, Growth | | When God forgives, He at once restores. Author: Theodore Epp
Topics: Forgiveness, Restoration | He who forgives ends the quarrel.
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Topics: Forgiveness, Quarreling | | Indeed, in conversion, a man must make a decision. We shy away from that term because in modern jargon a "decision" has come to be identified with an outward expression, such as raising the hand or going forward to the front. While such external acts have nothing to do with forgiveness of sins, the heart must make a decision to be saved. Author: Walter J. Chantry
Source: Man's Will-Free Yet Bound, The Banner of Truth magazine, Issue 140
Topics: Salvation | | A forgiven sinner is quite different from an ordinary sinner, and a consecrated Christian is quite different from an ordinary Christian. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Christians, Consecration | | As soon as we see the Lord Jesus on the Cross, we know our sins are forgiven ; and as soon as we see the Lord Jesus on the Throne, we know the Holy Spirit has been poured out upon us. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, The Cross | | Equally in the Christian life, to stumble and fall and then to flounder in the dust is sin, certainly. It calls for repentance and it needs God's forgiveness. For it is not necessary for me to walk with the Lord like that, hiding behind the excuse that "I must fall once in a while; it is inevitable! Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Repentance | | Because the Lord Jesus died on the Cross, I have received forgiveness of sins; because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead, I have received new life; because the Lord Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of the Father, I have received the outpoured Spirit. All is because of Him; nothing is because of me. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Salvation, The Cross | | I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell. Author: William Booth
Topics: Religion, Christianity, Apathy | | For no man by sprinkling himself with holy water, and with eating holy bread, is more merciful than before, or forgiveth wrong, or becometh at one with his enemy, or is more patient, and less covetous, and so forth; which are the sure tokens of the soul-health. Author: William Tyndale
Topics: Heresy, Enemies |
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