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Jesus is a reconciler of people, not a divider. He wants to bring people together, not finalize separations. -
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The forgiveness of Christ is the foundation of the Christian mission. -
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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. -
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I have found it is impossible to be unforgiving toward those I am praying for. It’s not easy to start praying for them; it’s one of the hardest things I’ve done. But when I make that person an object ... -
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As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. -
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He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. -
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A God who cannot suffer is poorer than any human. For a God who is incapable of suffering is a being who cannot be involved. Suffering and injustice do not affect him. And because he is so completely ... -
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Only one petition in the Lord’s Prayer has any condition attached to it; it is the petition for forgiveness. -
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself: for every man has need to be forgiven. -
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Evangelicals believe they are saved by grace through faith but then add a man-made waiver that you have to work as hard as you can meet middle-class behavioral patterns to hang onto it. -
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“Would I rather be feared or loved? That’s easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” -
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If you are ready to partake of grace you have not to atone for your sins--you have merely to accept of the atonement. All that you want to do is to cry, "God have mercy upon me," and you wil... -
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A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself. -
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The generosity and the magnanimity of God are so great that he accepts nothing from us without rewarding it beyond all computation. . . The vast disproportion existing between our work and God’s rewar... -
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At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification exc... -
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Jesus learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for his milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us... -
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The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross. -
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Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, “Be good.” Jesus’ stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, “Help!” -
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The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace. -
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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. -
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Living by grace inspires a growing consciousness that I am what I am in the sight of Jesus and nothing more. -
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We can't save ourselves by pulling on our bootstraps, even when the bootstraps are made of the finest religious leather. -
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We are forbidden to take sin more seriously than grace, or even as seriously as grace. -
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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. -
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Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. . . . Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. . . . [Gra... -
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We sometimes find God’s forgiveness to be offensive: “It reveals us to be distressingly like everyone else!” (And we are so special.) -
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Forgiveness is surrendering my right to hurt you for hurting me. -
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Forgiveness is to man the plainest of duties; to God it is the profoundest of problems. -
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To forgive oneself”? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. -
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Well, from the paradigm that Jesus provided, as he was being crucified, he said, “Father, forgive them.” It wasn’t as if he was talking about something that might happen. He was actually experiencing ...
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