3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

  • Author Brennan Manning
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    The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

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  • Author Rebecca Johns
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    Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.

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  • Author Larry McMurtry
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    Son, this is a sad thing,” Augustus said. “Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't go attempting vengeance. You’ve got more urgent business… Don't be trying to give back pain for pain.

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