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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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    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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    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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    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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    Peter Kreeft
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    Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 103:10-12, Romans 3:23-24, Titus 3:4-5, John 15:13, Ephesians 2:4-5
    We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 7:18-20, Romans 3:23, Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12
    The next time you say something deceitful, hurtful or proud, you cannot say “I don’t know what came over me.” Nothing came over you. Such sins come _out_of you. They come from a wellspring that is ver...

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    Simone Weil
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    Revelation 21:6, Matthew 5:6, Isaiah 55:1-2, Psalm 16:11, John 4:13-14, Jeremiah 2:13, Romans 3:23
    Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Psalm 51:17, Romans 7:18, Matthew 5:3, Romans 3:10
    Feel your sinfulness. Let it humble you. Let it sober you. Beware of so filling your life with talk shows and phone calls that you don’t regularly stop and consider the ruinous condition of your life ...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Genesis 6:5, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:10-12, Romans 7:18-23, Ephesians 2:1-5
    The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man.

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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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    John Stott
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    Galatians 3:13, Ephesians 2:8-9, John 3:16, 1 Peter 2:24, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:5, Romans 3:23
    The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for Man.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Romans 3:10-12, Psalm 53:1-3, Romans 5:12
    Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.... they essentially deny human sin, which they can see in the street. The stron...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 3:23-24, Mark 10:17-22, Ephesians 2:8-9, Isaiah 64:6, Revelation 3:15-16, Matthew 7:21-23
    A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult...

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    Jamie Dimon
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    Isaiah 1:18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Romans 3:23-24, Psalm 32:5, Acts 3:19, Proverbs 28:13
    We know mistakes were made.

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    Billy Graham
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    Proverbs 6:16-19, Psalm 5:4-5, Romans 6:23, Romans 3:23, Colossians 3:5-6, Proverbs 15:9, Psalm 7:11, John 3:36
    Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God.... The sinne...

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    Phillip Yancey
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    Psalm 34:17-18, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 23:39-43, Luke 18:13-14, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:23-24, Ephesians 2:8-9
    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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    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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    Immanuel Kant
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    Philippians 1:6, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:8, Jeremiah 17:9, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:23
    Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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    Emil Brunner
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    Romans 3:23-25, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 2:24, Ephesians 2:13-14, Colossians 1:19-20
    Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowhere else does the inviolable ...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Romans 3:23-26, Ephesians 5:2, 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 John 2:2, Hebrews 10:5-18, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:14-15, Hebrews 9:28, 1 John 4:10
    Throughout the Old Testament this was always the idea of a sin-offering - that of a perfect victim; without offense on its own account, taking the place of the offender; the transference of the offend...

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    Dan Allender
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    Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 3:1-19, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:23, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 8:3-6
    Every person enjoys dignity and suffers from depravity. The structure of personality is a result of the interaction of these two dynamics.

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    Thomas Merton
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    1 John 1:9, Psalm 51:17, Romans 3:23-24, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Lamentations 3:22-23, James 4:6
    But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin...

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    N. T. Wright
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    Ephesians 4:3-6, Romans 9:30-32, Acts 15:7-9, John 10:16, Colossians 3:11, Acts 28:28, Acts 14:27, Ephesians 3:8-10, Romans 3:29, Galatians 3:28, Acts 10:1-48, Romans 15:9-12, Romans 11:11, John 3:16, Luke 13:29, Ephesians 3:6, Romans 1:16, Revelation 7:9
    Paul’s insight that Gentiles are co-heirs, co-members, and co-participants in the gospel is not a mere sociological adjustment—it is a radical theological revelation.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Acts 9:1-19, Luke 23:39-43, Luke 18:9-14, Matthew 19:16-22, John 15:5, Romans 3:20
    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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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Romans 5:18-19, Exodus 1:14, Luke 15:11-32, John 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 15:22, Romans 3:23-24, Genesis 3:1-7
    The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

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    P. T. Forsyth
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    Isaiah 44:22, Romans 3:23-24, John 19:30, Ephesians 1:7-8, Colossians 1:13-14
    The feeble gospel preaches, “God is ready to forgive”; the mighty gospel preaches, “God has redeemed.”

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    George Herbert
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    Romans 12:17-21, Romans 3:23, 1 John 1:9, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 7:15-20, Proverbs 20:9, James 4:17, Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Seco...

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    Philip Melanchthon
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    John 14:26, Galatians 2:15-16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 5:1-2, Romans 3:23-31, 1 Peter 1:6-9
    But we must add at once that the pious will not cease from good works simply because it is impossible to gain any merit by them. Rather, the greater our faith, the more and greater our works…. For sin...

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    John Chrysostom
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    Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 3:23-24, Luke 18:13-14, Psalm 51:1, James 2:13, 1 Peter 1:3
    Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
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