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• The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Easter, Home

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• He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Clothes, People

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• What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

  Louis Dudek

  Forgiveness, Memories, Wells

  Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press

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• Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

  Ann Voskamp

  Soul, Stronger, May

  Twitter post from Jun 6, 2014

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• At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.85, Multnomah

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• For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, Practice, Two

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

  Alice Munro

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Never Forgive

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013

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• Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Love Is, Darkness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 20, 2011

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• It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

  Rob Bell

  Acceptance, Accepted, Achieve

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Forgiveness, Christian, Religious

  Robert Farrar Capon (1993). “The Mystery of Christ-- and why We Don't Get it”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Joy, Sorrow, Comfort

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• But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Legs, Remember

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eid is not for the one who wears #new clothes. Eid is for the one whose obedience rises. Eid is not for the one with beautiful clothes and fine means of transport, Eid is for the one whose sins are forgiven.

  Ibn Rajab

  Beautiful, Mean, Clothes

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• Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, Meaningful, Jesus

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.80, Melville House

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• If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Cells, Years

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• When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

  Max Lucado

  Faith, Forgiveness, God

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.640, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Forgiveness, Believe, Novelists

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

  Penn Jillette

  Motivational, God, Forgiveness

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• Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heaven, Forgiving, Common

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• I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

  TobyMac

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