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These forgiveness scriptures were written about seeking atonement from our Holy Father. Can you reflect this same type of unconditional love with those that seek forgiveness from you? While it is hard to forgive those who hurt us, it is often equally as hard to ask for forgiveness. Perhaps you can draw some inspiration from these forgiveness scriptures.

#1

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)

#2

Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matthew 11:28)

#3

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. (Psalm 55:22)

#4

My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. (1 John 2:1)

#5

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)

#6

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. (Acts 3:19)

#7

I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted. (Isaiah 43:25-26)

#8

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus ... (Romans 8:1)

#9

Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord,
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.  (Isaiah 1:18)

 

#10

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

#11

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7)

#12

If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Matthew 6:14-15

# 13
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke uponyou and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.
Matthew 11:28

# 14
Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 55:22

# 15
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 John 2:1

#16
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9

# 17
Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Acts 3:19

# 18
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted.
Isaiah 43:25-26

# 19
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus ...
Romans 8:1

# 20
Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord,
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
Isaiah 1:18

# 21
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17

# 22
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
Ephesians 1:7

# 23
Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.
Hebrews 10:17

# 24
The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
Daniel 9:9

# 25
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14

# 26
As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12

 

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Graduation or commencement is one of the most magical times in anyone's life. Whether be it from high school or college, graduation marks a momentous milestone that will only be crossed once.

Graduation is a culmination of years of hard work, dedication, and quest for knowledge. Graduation is a special recognition for the bestowing of diplomas, certificates, degrees, and honors. Share these special and moving graduation inspirational quotes with your grad today.

#1

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#2

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

~Milton Berle

#3

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

~William Arthur Ward

#4

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

~Henry David Thoreau

#6

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

#7

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

~Santiz Anatole France

#8

I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

~Anonymous

#9

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.

~Walt Disney

#10

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11

Graduation is a time of completion, of finishing, of an ending,
however, it is also a time of celebration of achievement and
a beginning for the new graduate.

~Catherine Pulsifer

#12

You are educated.
Your certification is in your degree.
You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.
Let me ask you to think of an alternative.
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

~Tom Brokaw

#13

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies
'commencement exercises'.
Graduation is not the end;
it's the beginning.

~Orrin Hatch

#14

I will reach for the stars no matter how hard it seems,
and fly like a bird with the knowledge this journey brings.

~Semetra C. Vanison

#15

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.

~Anthony J. D'Angelo

#16

Graduation is only a concept.
In real life every day you graduate.
Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life.
If you can grasp that,
you'll make a difference.

~Arie Pencovici

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It is a profound truth that our paths are shaped and our lives are formed by those that we choose to surround ourselves with. Friendship is one of the strongest ties that the human condition can form.

An unknown author once said that "friends are kisses blown to us by angels", and anyone who has known the love of a true friend can stand testament to just how true that is. Share these inspirational friendship poems with those friends that are dear to your heart and that have a window seat for your soul.

#1

Online Friendship
Online friend I have never seen you before,
but I know you are really there.
I click you into reality, like magic in the air.
Your voice is like an angel, though I really do not hear.
Your hug as warm as any, of the loved ones I hold dear.
You are always there for comfort, or a word of cheer.
Though you are very far away, I always have you near.
You are a very special friend, like none I have ever known.
As long as you are in cyberspace, I will never be alone.

~Author Unknown

#2

The Making of Friends
Life is sweet because of the friends we have made
And the things which in common we share;
We want to live on, not because of ourselves,
But because of the ones who would care.
It's living and doing for somebody else
On that all of life's splendor depends,
And the joy of it all, when we count it all up,
Is found in the making of friends.

~Edgar A. Guest

#3

Some people, no matter how old they get,
Never lose their beauty --
They merely move it from their faces
Into their hearts.

~Martin Buxhaum

#4

Everyone Needs Someone
People need people and friends need friends
And we all need love for a full life depends
Not on vast riches or great acclaim
Not on success or on worldly fame
But just in knowing that someone cares
And holds us close in their thoughts and prayers
For only the knowledge that we're understood
Makes everyday living feel wonderfully good
And we rob ourselves of life's greatest need
When we 'lock up our hearts' and fail to heed
The outstretched hand reaching to find
A kindred spirit whose heart and mind
Are lonely and longing to somehow share
Our joys and sorrows and to make us aware
That life's completeness and richness depends
On the things we share with our
loved ones and friends.

~Helen Steiner Rice

#5

Thank You Friend
I never came to you, my friend, and went away without
some new enrichment of the heart;
More faith and less of doubt,
more courage in the days ahead.
And often in great need coming to you,
I went away comforted indeed.
How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase
that tells all that your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
There is no word, no phrase for you
on whom I so depend.
All I can say to you is this,
God Bless You precious friend.

~Grace Noll Crowell

#6

Friendship
There's a miracle of friendship
That dwells within the heart
And you don't know how it happens
Or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
Always gives a special lift
And you realize that friendship is
God's most perfect gift.

~Author Unknown

#7
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten the words.

~Author Unknown

#8

A Special Friend

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;

I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;

I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day

As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.

I'd like to do the big things and the splendid things for you,

To brush the gray from out your skies and leave them only blue;

I'd like to say the kindly things that I so oft have heard,

And feel that I could rouse your soul the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy that you have given me,

Yet that were wishing you a need I hope will never be;

I'd like to make you feel as rich as I, who travel on

Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to lean upon.

I'm wishing at this time that I could but repay

A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way;

And could I have one wish, this only would it be:

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.

~Author Unknown

 

#9

A Friend Is Like A Flower

A friend is like a flower -- a rose to be exact,

Or maybe like a brand new gate --that never comes unlatched

A friend is like an owl, both beautiful and wise

Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost, whose spirit never dies.

A friend is like those blades of grass -- you can never mow,

standing straight, tall, and proud -- in a perfect little row

A friend is like a heart that goes --strong until the end.

Where would we be in this world -- if we didn't have a friend.

 

#10

If Tomorrow Never Comes

If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep,

I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.

 

If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door,

I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.

 

If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,

I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.

 

If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute or two

to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming, you would KNOW I do.

 

If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day,

well, I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.

 

For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight,

and we always get a second chance to make everything right.

 

There will always be another day to say our "I love you's",

And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do's?"

 

But just in case I might be wrong and today is all I get,

I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget,

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,

And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.

 

So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?

For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day,

That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss

and you were too busy to grant someone,

what turned out to be their one last wish.

 

So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their ear,

Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear,

Take time to say "I'm sorry," "please forgive me," "thank you" or "it's okay".

And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

~Author Unknown

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Nothing is more important than the family that surrounds us. Family can mean so many things to so many people. Life begins and ends with family, although our roads and paths in life may take us separate places, we are always together in our hearts. These inspirational family poems may cause you to reflect and reminisce on your own family, of bittersweet days gone by and those that are still ahead.

#1

A Home Song

~ Henry van Dyke

I read within a poet's book

A word that started the page:

"Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage!"

Yes, that is true; and something more

You'll find, where'er you roam,

That marble floors and gilded walls

Can never make a home.

But, every house where Love abides,

And Friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:

For there the heart can rest.

 

#2

Going Home for Christmas

~ Edgar Guest

He little knew the sorrow that was in his vacant chair,

He never guessed they'd miss him, or he'd surely have been there;

He couldn't see his mother or the lump that filled her throat,

Or the tears that started falling as she read his hasty note;

And he couldn't see his father, sitting sorrowful and dumb,

Or he never would have written that he thought he couldn't come.

He little knew the gladness that his presence would have made,

And the joy it would have given, or he never would have stayed.

He didn't know how hungry had the little mother grown

Once again to see her baby and to claim him for her own.

He didn't guess the meaning of his visit Christmas Day

Or he never would have written that he couldn't get away.

 

He couldn't see the fading of the cheeks that once were pink,

And the silver in the tresses; and he didn't stop to think

How the years are passing swiftly, and next Christmas it might be

There would be no home to visit and no mother dear to see.

He didn't think about it - I'll not say he didn't care.

He was heedless and forgetful or he'd surely have been there.

 

Are you going home for Christmas? Have you written you'll be there?

Going home to kiss the mother and to show her that you care?

Going home to greet the father in a way to make him glad?

If you're not I hope there'll never come a time you'll wish you had.

Just sit down and write a letter - it will make their heart strings hum

With a tune of perfect gladness - if you'll tell them that you'll come.

 

#3

A Thought

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

 

It is very nice to think

The world is full of meat and drink,

With little children saying grace

In every Christian kind of place.

 

#4

Family

~ Sean Kelley

Always there

Fun-loving people

Christians who love God

Friends

 

#5

Matthew 20:20-21

~ The Rhyming Gospels, a poetic paraphrase of Holy Scripture,

by Bernard Williams

 

Then the mother of James and John

Came forward at their bequest,

She knelt down before Jesus

To make known her request.

Jesus looked down upon her,

Asked, "What is your desire?"

She said, "To serve in your kingdom

My two sons do aspire."

"Command one to stand at your right,

For both I want the best,

The other put at your left hand,

This, then is my request."

 

#6

Whole Duty of Children

~ Robert Louis Stevenson,

A child should always say what's true

And speak when he is spoken to,

And behave mannerly at table;

At least as far as he is able.

 

#7

Our House

~ Edgar Guest

We play at our house and have all sorts of fun,

An' there's always a game when supper is done;

An' at our house there's marks on the walls an' the stairs,

An' some terrible scratches on some of the chairs;

An' ma says that our house is surely a fright,

But pa and I say that our house is all right.

 

At our house we laugh an' we sing an' we shout,

An' whirl all the chairs and the tables about,

An' I rassle my pa an' I get him down too,

An' he's all out of breath when the fightin' is through;

Am' ma says our house is surely a sight,

But pa an' I say that our house is all right.

 

I've been to houses with pa where I had

To sit in a chair like a good little lad,

An' there wasn't a mark on the walls an' the chairs,

An' the stuff that we have couldn't come up to theirs;

An' pa said to ma that for all of their joy

He wouldn't change places and give up his boy.

 

They never have races nor rassles nor fights.

Coz they have no children to play with at nights;

An' their walls are all clean and their curtains hang straight,

An' everthing's shiny an' right up to date;

But pa says with all of its racket an' fuss,

He'd rather by far live at our house with us.

 

#8

Grandparents

~ Scott Kelley

Who is like a grandma? I would like to know. A face filled with a smile. A head crowned with snow.

Her words are always kind, no matter what you do. And she always wants to help, as long as your heart is true.

Now, grandpa is a different breed. His bark is worse than his bite. If you ever catch him without his teeth, he's really a funny sight!

But teeth don't have anything to do with being very bright. Between the two you have quite a blend of humor, patience, and wisdom no end.

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