New perspectives: what does “forgiveness” mean to you?


by Chara Daum

"And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses." (Mark 11:25)

"Being able to be maintained by the Lord in the good of love and the truths of faith and to be withheld from evils and falsities constitutes the forgiveness of sins; and at the same time keeping well away from evil and falsity and detesting them constitutes repentance. But all this is so only with those who have received new life from the Lord through regeneration, for those things belong to the new life." (Emanuel Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven 9448)

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"The reason faith loses when it looks away from the Lord toward us and our worldly advantages is that we then fight on our own."

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