Puritan quotes on
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.”
“The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.”
“No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”
“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.”
“He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.”
“Daily bread may make us live comfortably, but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.”
“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell.”
“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!”
“Forgive, as you hope to be forgiven.”
“Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.”
“He who has loved you and pardoned you will never cease to love and pardon.”
“The joy of pardon has a voice louder than the voice of sin.”
“A great sinner pardoned makes a great singer.”
“Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy.”
“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!”
“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.”
“No repentance is acceptable with God but what is built on the faith of forgiveness.”
“Ten thousand talents is a figurative speech, to express how great a debt sin is; and do you call this a pleasure?”
“If there be any pardon with God,” says one of another age, “ it is such as becomes him to give.”
“Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together.”
“Included in this mercy are forgiveness and righteousness and eternal life,—is not all this truly blessed?”
“That blood, by covering his sins, brings pardon--pardon to anyone who is willing to take pardon in this way from God.”
“It was not the blood of bulls and goats sacrificed under the law, which can remove guilt—and procure remission of sin.”
“This is the result of the application of the blood to those who were 'blacker than the coal,' redder than crimson.”
“Though aggravating circumstances be never so many, yet he will multiply his mercies as fast as thou canst the sins thou hast committed.”
“The father of the prodigal was the forwarder of the two to that joyful meeting.”
“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?”
“In that celestial kingdom there shall be no vilifying or slandering one another, no raking into those sores which Christ died to heal.”
“Let us not be content however, without the evidence and sense of pardon.”
“But Christ brings us another name, in which there is the forgiveness of sins, that for His sake sins are remitted and pardoned.”
