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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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