{"id":6636,"date":"2018-07-15T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6636"},"modified":"2018-11-06T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:07:07","slug":"as-we-forgive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6636","title":{"rendered":"As We Forgive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MacDonald-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MacDonald-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MacDonald-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MacDonald-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/MacDonald-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we forgive not men their trespasses, our trespasses remain.  For how can God in any sense forgive, remit, or send away the sin which a man insists on retaining?  Unmerciful, we must be given up to the tormentors until we learn to be merciful.  God is merciful: we must be merciful.  There is no blessedness except in being such as God; it would be altogether unmerciful to leave us unmerciful.  The reward of the merciful is, that by their mercy they are rendered capable of receiving the mercy of God &#8212; yea, God himself, who is Mercy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George MacDonald, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hopeofthegospel.html\">The Hope of the Gospel<\/a><\/em>, p. 140-141<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Meadowlark Gardens, Virginia, April 3, 2012]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we forgive not men their trespasses, our trespasses remain. For how can God in any sense forgive, remit, or send away the sin which a man insists on retaining? Unmerciful, we must be given up to the tormentors until we learn to be merciful. God is merciful: we must be merciful. There is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}