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    Edward Herbert
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    Genesis 50:19-21 , Exodus 34:6-7, Proverbs 17:9, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 23:34 , Psalm 103:10-12
    He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

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    Anne Peterson
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    Genesis 50:15-21, Exodus 34:6-7, Job 42:10 , Matthew 5:43-45, Luke 23:34, Psalm 51:10-12
    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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    William S. Stoddard
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    Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:8, Colossians 3:13, Luke 23:34
    Forgiving the unforgivable is hard. So was the cross: hard words, hard wood, hard nails.

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    Thomas Fuller
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    Genesis 50:15-21, Micah 7:18-20, Leviticus 19:18, Psalm 32:1-5, Luke 23:34
    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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    John Irving
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    Mark 11:25, James 5:16, Romans 12:17-19, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The man who refuses to forgive destroys the bridge over which he himself must cross.

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    Corrie Ten Boom
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    Genesis 50:15-21, Numbers 14:18-20, Job 42:10 , Matthew 18:21-22, Luke 23:34 , Psalm 103:10-12
    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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    Lewis B. Smedes
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    Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Romans 12:17-19, Micah 7:18-19
    Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope ...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, Proverbs 19:11
    Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    1 Corinthians 13:4-5, Romans 12:9-10, Matthew 6:14-15, Luke 6:37, 1 Peter 4:8, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

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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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    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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    Archibald Hart
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    1 John 4:20, Proverbs 24:29, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13, Luke 23:34
    Forgiveness is surrendering my right to hurt you for hurting me.

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    Lewis Smedes
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    Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, James 5:16
    We forgive persons, not institutions. We forgive persons for what not for what they are. We forgive persons for what they do to seriously wound us. We forgive persons for what they do to wrong us when...

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    Max Lucado
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    1 John 1:9, James 5:16, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But ...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    Genesis 50:15-21, Micah 7:18-20, Hosea 14:2-4, Matthew 6:14-15, Psalm 32:1-5
    The man who is truly forgiven and knows it, is a man who forgives.

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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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    Timothy Keller
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    When people say, 'I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself,' they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.

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    Charles Williams
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    Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 6:14-15, 2 Corinthians 2:10-11, Luke 17:3-4, Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:13
    Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

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    R. T. Kendall
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    Romans 12:20-21, James 5:16, Mark 11:25, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32
    The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook-even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.

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    Romans 12:19, Matthew 6:14-15, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Peter 3:9, James 1:20, Proverbs 20:22
    By forgiving another, I am trusting that God is a better justice-maker than I am.

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    Andree Seu Peterson
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    Matthew 18:21-22, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:1, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:32
    I asked a few people if they’d ever forgiven anyone and what it felt like. They gave me answers so pious I knew they’d never done it…Forgiveness is a brutal mathematical transaction done with fully en...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Matthew 18:21-22, John 21:15-17, Matthew 18:21-35, 1 John 1:9, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 6:14-15, Ephesians 4:32
    Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is th...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    1 John 2:2, Hebrews 10:10, Colossians 1:13-14, Ephesians 1:7, Isaiah 53:5
    We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God and for the unfathomable depth of His forgetting i...

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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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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Isaiah 55:6-7, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-323, Micah 7:18-19, Psalm 103:8-12
    There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 5:8, Psalm 103:10-12, Mark 11:25, Luke 6:37, 1 John 1:9
    To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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    John Bunyan
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    No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

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    Carnegie Simpson
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    Luke 23:34, Ephesians 4:32, 1 John 1:9, Matthew 18:21-22, Micah 7:18, Isaiah 1:18, Psalm 103:12
    Forgiveness is to man the plainest of duties; to God it is the profoundest of problems.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. Wh...
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