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Forgiveness

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“As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.”
Ralph Venning
“The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.”
Joseph Alleine
“No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”
John Bunyan
“God will not lightly or easily lose His people. He has provided well for us: blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and, in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our cause.”
John Bunyan
“He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.”
Thomas Watson
“Daily bread may make us live comfortably, but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.”
Thomas Watson, The Lord's Prayer
“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell.”
Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture
“His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners after great lengths of time, then raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God!”
Charles Spurgeon
“Forgive, as you hope to be forgiven.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.”
Charles Spurgeon
“He who has loved you and pardoned you will never cease to love and pardon.”
Charles Spurgeon
“The joy of pardon has a voice louder than the voice of sin.”
Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David
“A great sinner pardoned makes a great singer.”
Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David
“Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy.”
Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David
“To render good for evil is divine. To render good for good is human. To render evil for evil is brutish. But to render evil for good is devilish!”
Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
“So, says Christ, injuries and unkindnesses do not so work upon me as to make me irreconcilable; it is my nature to forgive: "I am meek.”
Thomas Goodwin, The Heart of Christ in Heaven Towards Sinners on Earth
“No repentance is acceptable with God but what is built on the faith of forgiveness.”
John Owen
“Ten thousand talents is a figurative speech, to express how great a debt sin is; and do you call this a pleasure?”
Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken
“If there be any pardon with God,” says one of another age, “ it is such as becomes him to give.”
Horatius Bonar, The Story of Grace
“Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together.”
J.C. Ryle, Old Paths
“Included in this mercy are forgiveness and righteousness and eternal life,—is not all this truly blessed?”
Horatius Bonar, The Lesser Epistles
“That blood, by covering his sins, brings pardon--pardon to anyone who is willing to take pardon in this way from God.”
Horatius Bonar, The Blood of the Covenant
“It was not the blood of bulls and goats sacrificed under the law, which can remove guilt—and procure remission of sin.”
Thomas Vincent, The Only Deliverer from the Wrath to Come
“This is the result of the application of the blood to those who were 'blacker than the coal,' redder than crimson.”
Horatius Bonar, The Blood of the Covenant
“Though aggravating circumstances be never so many, yet he will multiply his mercies as fast as thou canst the sins thou hast committed.”
Stephen Charnock, The Chief Sinners Objects of the Choicest Mercy
“The father of the prodigal was the forwarder of the two to that joyful meeting.”
Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, V04
“Shall a man run away with the forgiveness, and pass it over thus, so as not to concern himself about the sin forgiven any more?”
Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, V10
“In that celestial kingdom there shall be no vilifying or slandering one another, no raking into those sores which Christ died to heal.”
Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken
“Let us not be content however, without the evidence and sense of pardon.”
Thomas Watson, The Lords Prayer
“But Christ brings us another name, in which there is the forgiveness of sins, that for His sake sins are remitted and pardoned.”
R.C. Sproul, What is reformed theology understanding the basics
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