Prideful Forgivers
How do we counter the pride of virtuous magnanimity, the second form of pride associated with forgiving? As forgivers, we should remind ourselves that, on our own, we have neither…
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Forgiveness Mirrors God.
Yet even when offenders are unrepentant, we can and should forgive. There are better ways to protect ourselves than the refusal to forgive. And when it comes to reminding offenders…
Care and Protection
But a person with a shattered life . . . doesn’t first need Christ to forgive her or to forgive through her. Before anything else, she needs Christ to cradle…
Forgiving the Unrepentant
It is possible to close ourselves to grace, both human and divine. But only grace can pry open the door that has been shut in its face. So God continues…
We Don’t Get What We Deserve.
For a Christian, however, a bottom-line principle can never be that we should get what we deserve. Our very existence is God’s gift. Our redemption from the snares of sin…
Forgiveness as a Way of Life
Forgiveness doesn’t stand alone, as a punctual act or even as an isolated practice. That would be too passive an understanding of what forgiveness is all about. Rather, it is…
Forgiveness and Repentance
Repentance is important, even indispensable, and it is indispensable because forgiveness is an event between people, not just an individual’s change of feelings, attitudes, or actions. Instead of being a…
No Unforgivable People
There are no unforgivable people. Should we forgive even those who refuse to repent? Consider once again God’s forgiveness, which serves as a model for ours. There are people who…
No Unforgiveable Sins
The scandalousness of God’s indiscriminate forgiveness hits us even harder when we are called on to imitate it. When we need to forgive, most of us, perhaps unconsciously, feel entitled…
God Giving Through Us
It will not help much if we simply remind ourselves: God gives to the ungrateful, and so should we. But it will help if we remember that it’s God who…