Forgiven Quotes - Page 8

• Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Humility, Baptism

  "Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects".

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• And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

  Gayle Forman

  Understood, Ifs

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.125, Penguin

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• Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who crucified Him were forgiven while they were in the act. Not a word did He utter against them nor against the ones who stirred them up to destroy Him. How evil they all were. He knew better than any other man, but He maintained a charitable attitude toward them.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we think we have forgiven, but we don't realize how many layers there are. And if we don't deal with each layer, hardness of heart can set in and build up to monumental proportions.

  Stormie Omartian

  Heart, Thinking, Needs

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• All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Living Things

  Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

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• In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Forgiveness, Feels, Presence Of God

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• Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious than the petty actions of others that tend to irritate us! God calls us to graciously bear with the weaknesses of others, tolerating them and forgiving them even as He has forgiven us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiving, Serious, Weakness

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.174, NavPress

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• He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Done, British History

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• Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and respected him deeply... His unscrupulous past and cynical opportunism were being largely forgotten or forgiven. He was gradually becoming recognized not only as the prophet of a new Conservatism, at once compassionate at home and positive abroad, but as a great statesmen whom the Queen did well to honour. Power had brought responsibility. By 1878 the transformation in public attitudes towards Disraeli was complete.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Queens, Attitude, Responsibility

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• Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.

  Douglas Clegg

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  World, Telling The Truth, This World

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• All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

  Neal Shusterman

  People, Forgiving, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiveness, God, Faith

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2014

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• Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.
  If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth.
  Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.

  Rumi

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.110, Lulu.com

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• We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven.
  Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our
  forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives,
  for in forgiving one another we act towards one another
  as He has acted towards us.

  Hannah More

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Forgiving

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• A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Hate

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.65, SCM Press

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• Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.

  Greg Laurie

  People, Heaven, Good People

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Atheism, Literature

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• It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins

  Max Lucado

  Remember, Sin

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Aug 01, 2010

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• Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

  Coco Chanel

  Stupid, Forever, Sin

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• Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when he finishes confessing, he leaves free, great, beautiful, forgiven, [...] happy. And this is the beauty of Confession... Jesus is there...and He receives you with so much love.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Lines

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• What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.

  Pope John Paul I

  Mistake, Sin, Infinite

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• Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Arms, Adam

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.330, Scholastic Inc.

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