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Brief Overview: One of the most profound benefits afforded by the Christian faith is the gift of forgiveness. This gift was made possible through Jesus’s death, nailed to a cross. But, why do I personally need forgiveness? To discover what forgiveness is, why I might need it, and how to obtain it, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)

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No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
- John Bunyan
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- C. S. Lewis
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When we realize that we are all sinners needing forgiveness, it will be easy for us to forgive others.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize)
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
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Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
- Pope John Paul II
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A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
- William Arthur Ward
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To err is human, to forgive, divine.
- Alexander Pope
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
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Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
- St. John Chrysostom
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This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?
- Anne Graham Lotz
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When Jesus said, It is finished,
- Rick Warren (PhD)
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Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.
- Max Lucado
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Gods forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it “ not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
- Charles Swindoll
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There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesnt see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.
- Max Lucado
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In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels 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
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...I’ve done a lot of stupid stuff. That’s between me and God. But I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’d be in deep s***. It doesn’t excuse my mistakes, but I’m holding out for Grace. I’m holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross because I know who I am, and I hope I don’t have to depend on my own religiosity.
- Bono
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The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
- Richard Rohr
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It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
- Tyler Perry
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When we received forgiveness instead of judgment, we, too, were made ready to forgive the brethren. What God did to us, we then owed to others.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD)
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Lewis B. Smedes
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
- T. D. Jakes
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Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action “ not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.
- Joyce Meyer
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Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.
- Joel Osteen
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People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize)
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You have been forgiven, so act like it!
- A. W. Tozer
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Corrie ten Boom
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Confession is an act of honesty and courage “ an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
- Pope John Paul II
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You can't go to heaven hating somebody, forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus & Mary now. Accept God's will now.
- Mother Angelica
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He who knows how to forgive prepares for himself many graces from God. As often as I look upon the cross, so often will I forgive with all my heart.
- St. Faustina
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Forgiveness is absorbing the pain, emitting none in return, and trusting your healing to God.
- Vicki Edwards
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Happiness is impossible without repentance, forgiveness, and a right relationship with Christ.
- Randy Alcorn
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace; it cost God the Cross of Jesus Christ before He could forgive sin and remain a holy God… When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
- Oswald Chambers
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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
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD)
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace; it cost God the Cross of Jesus Christ before He could forgive sin and remain a holy God When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
- Oswald Chambers
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
- Igor Stravinsky
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I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
- Toby Mac
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I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me.
- Glen Campbell
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Our sins have been put away. To use the language of the Scripturesthey are completely removed, put behind Gods back, blotted out, remembered no more, and hurled into the depths of the sea.
- Jerry Bridges
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The Bible reassures us that though our feelings are fleeting, Gods forgiveness is constant. If we confess our sins, he will forgive us. Its a promise we can bank on.
- Sarah M. Hupp
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- G. K. Chesterton
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If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize)
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt
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There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
- John Connally
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD)
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Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
- Fulton Sheen
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Are we trying to atone for our sins? We cant. Only Jesus can, and He already did. Dont try to repeat the atonement “ just accept it! Embrace Gods forgiveness.
- Randy Alcorn
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Lewis B. Smedes
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Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
- Rick Warren (PhD)

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