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    N. T. Wright
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    Matthew 18:21-22, Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13
    Forgiveness doesn’t mean that we don’t take evil seriously after all; it means that we do. In fact, it means we take it doubly seriously. To begin with, it means a settled determination to name evil a...

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    Titus 3:5, Romans 7:18-19, Psalm 51:5, Jeremiah 17:9, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23
    “I’m not a good person” is a shockingly countercultural thing to say. We all want to think we’re “clean” and that we’ve avoided whatever “big sins” are on our own personal lists. But we trust ourselve...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Titus 3:5-6, John 3:16-17, 1 John 1:9, Ezekiel 36:25-26, Romans 6:23
    Defilement is what sin does to us; damnation is what sin introduces as our eternal end. Except for God’s intervention. We have needs, and God addresses our needs. Even our sin, the most destructive re...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 6:7-8, Proverbs 14:12
    And of some sinful pleasure they say "Let me have but this and I'll take the consequences": little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pl...

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    1 John 1:9, John 1:5, Ephesians 5:8, Genesis 1:3
    Darkness is not the opposite of light; it is the absence of light.

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    W. H. Auden
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    Romans 6:1-2, 1 John 3:4-6, Hebrews 10:26-27, Proverbs 28:13, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 2:4, Psalm 51:10-12
    Every crook will argue, “I like committing crimes. God likes forgiving them. Really the world is admirably arranged.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 34:5, Romans 10:11, 1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:7
    I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Romans 5:18, Isaiah 53:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 3:23, Genesis 3:6
    The fact [is] that original sin is really original. Not merely in theology but in history it is a thing rooted in the origins. Whatever else men have believed, they have all believed that there is som...

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    Erroll Hulse
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    Matthew 5:17-18, Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, Romans 6:23, Proverbs 14:12, James 4:17, 1 John 1:8-9
    Postmodernism (the thinking of our age) is fiercely antinomian (without law). It is admitted that people make mistakes, but the word ‘sin’ is seldom mentioned and the idea that we all sin against God ...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    2 Corinthians 7:10, Isaiah 53:5, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-19
    This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    James 4:7-8, 1 John 1:9, Ephesians 2:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Luke 5:32, Isaiah 1:18, Romans 5:8
    We don’t come to Him as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

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    Robert Louis Stevenson
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    James 4:7-8, 1 John 1:9, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 51:10, Romans 8:1-2, Galatians 5:16-17
    "At the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most dreadful shuddering…I looked down…I was once more Edward Hyde."

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    Clement of Alexandria
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    1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 2:22, Romans 12:2, Isaiah 1:16-17, Proverbs 1:7, James 1:5
    Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

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    Handley Moule
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    Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 6:23, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 5:8, James 2:10, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:23
    The harlot, the liar, the murderer, are short of it [sc. God’s glory]; but so are you. Perhaps they stand at the bottom of a mine, and you on the crest of an Alp; but you are as little able to touch t...

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Proverbs 16:2, 1 John 1:8, James 1:22-24, Psalm 19:12, Matthew 7:3-5
    You will never make yourself feel that you are a sinner, because there is a mechanism in you as a result of sin that will always be defending you against every accusation. We are all on very good term...

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    Source Unknown
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    Colossians 2:13, Acts 4:12, Romans 10:9-10, 1 John 1:9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:8
    Good people don’t go to heaven, forgiven people do.

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    Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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    John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalm 103:10-12, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23-24
    I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    Catherine the Great
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    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:25, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Micah 7:18-19, 1 John 1:9
    Dieu pardonerra; c’est son métier; God forgives you — it’s his thing. *for contrast

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    John 4:13-14, Romans 6:23, Acts 3:19, Isaiah 59:2, 1 John 1:8-9
    Neither the language of medicine nor of law is adequate substitute for the language of [sin.] Contrary to the medical model, we are not entirely at the mercy of our maladies. The choice is to enter in...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Francis Chan
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    Romans 6:1-2, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 John 1:9, James 2:14-17
    Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

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    Emil Brunner
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    Isaiah 55:7, 1 John 1:9, Micah 7:18-19, Romans 12:17-19, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    Forgiveness is the very opposite of anything which can be taken for granted. Nothing is less obvious than forgiveness.

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    Corrie Ten Boom
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    Micah 7:19, Hebrews 8:12, Isaiah 1:18, Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:7
    God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "no fishing."

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    Richard Rohr
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    Genesis 3:, Romans 3:23, Psalm 51:, Luke 15:11-32, Hebrews 10:17, 1 John 1:9
    The genius of the biblical revelation is that it refuses to deny the dark side of things, but forgives failure and integrates falling to achieve its only promised wholeness.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 7:18-19, James 4:8, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Psalm 51:2-3
    It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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    Oscar Wilde
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    Matthew 18:21-22, Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9, Mark 11:25, Luke 17:3-4, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

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    Albert Camus
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    1 John 1:9, Luke 22:61-62, Genesis 50:20, 2 Timothy 2:13, Proverbs 25:19, John 21:17, Psalm 41:9
    I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

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    Miroslav Volf
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    Romans 3:23, Luke 6:27-28, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, 1 John 1:8-9, Proverbs 24:17-18
    Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
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