A Quote by Horatius Bonar

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Horatius Bonar

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Forgiven Him Like May Us

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Horatius Bonar
Scottish - Poet
December 19, 1808 - May 31, 1889

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

Pope Francis

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it a new heart, capable of loving Him, who loved His own to the end (cf. John 13:1). And this love is manifested in his mercy. Jesus always forgives us.

Pope Francis

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

Brennan Manning

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Deepak Chopra

The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving God’s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.

Jerry Bridges

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

Tove Jansson

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

Jerome Lejeune

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

C. S. Lewis

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

John Calvin

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Walt Whitman

This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.

Pope Francis

When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.