“Repentance and forgiveness are riveted together by the eternal purpose of God….In the very nature of things, if we believe in the holiness of God it must be that if we continue in our sin and will not repent of it, we cannot be forgiven but must reap the consequences of our obstinacy.” C H Spurgeon
“We know He has power to pardon if He so chooses. But there is greater comfort than this for the believer; it rests in His covenant to pardon. As none can bind God but Himself, so none can break the bond He makes with Himself. These are His own words : ”(I) will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:7) In other words, ‘I will drown your sins in My mercy and spend all I have, rather than let it be said that My good is overcome by your evil.” William Gurnall
“If we cannot trust God to have dealt effectively with our past, we may as well throw in the sponge now and have it over with….But if God has indeed pardoned and cleansed us, then we should count it done and waste no more time in sterile lamentations.” A W Tozer
Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
