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  • Clara Barton Luis Palau, "Experiencing God's Forgiveness," Multnomah Press, 1985.
  • John Wesley Source unknown
  • Pres. James Garfield Source unknown
  • A Father's Love Bits & Pieces, October 15, 1992, p. 13
  • A Hymn to God the Father Source unknown
  • A Prayer Andrew Murray, Source unknown
  • A Spiritual Grace Source unknown
  • Aggie Cadet's Initiation Our Daily Bread, March 22, 1994
  • All Forgivenesses Are Not Alike! Countdown! Golden Minutes Ministries, July-August, 1997, Long Beach, CA
  • Canabalism Source unknown
  • Concentration Camp Letter Source unknown
  • Corrie Ten Boom Source unknown
  • Death Row Inmate From Bad Beginnings to Happy Endings, by Ed Young, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publ., 1994), pp. 3-5.
  • Dying Father Guideposts Magazine, 1979
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Daily Walk, May 30, 1992
  • Fault Box Source unknown
  • Forgiveness and Reconciliation Albert H. Quie, President of Prison Fellowship Ministries, Jubilee, p. 5.
  • Forgiveness is . . . David Augsburger, Cherishable: Love and Marriage, 141-144.
  • Frayed Friendship Our Daily Bread, June 18, 1994.
  • Hatred Preserves Pain Little House on the Freeway, Tim Kimmel, pp. 56-61
  • I Wish . . . Source unknown
  • Indian Chief Today in the Word, November 10, 1993
  • JAARS Airplane Crash God Came Near, Max Lucado, Multnomah Press, 1987, p. 101
  • Japanese Symphony Today in the Word, September 11, 1995, p. 18.
  • Joke Bits and Pieces, May, 1991
  • Marie de Medicis Daily Walk, May 27, 1992
  • Martin Luther Occult Bondage and Deliverance, K. Koch, p. 10.
  • Miracle on the River Kwai The Christian Leader, Don Ratzlaff.
  • Natural Inclination Bits & Pieces, March 31, 1994, pp. 12-15
  • Nobody to Forgive Me John Stott in The Contemporary Christian
  • One Eternal Principle William Barclay in The Letter to Hebrews, Christianity Today, October 5, 1992, p. 48
  • Our Greatest Need Unfinished Business, Charles Sell, Multnomah, 1989, pp. 121ff
  • Psychiatric Patients Today in the Word, March 1989, p. 8.
  • Quote Source unknown
  • Remember to Forget Our Daily Bread, Thursday, December 20
  • Robert Bruce of Scotland Putting Your Past Behind You, E. Lutzer, Here's Life, 1990, p. 42
  • Robert E. Lee Source unknown
  • Secret Sin A Forgiving God in an Unforgiving World, Ron Lee Davis.
  • Sin Enslaves, Forgiveness Frees Richard Hoefler, Will Daylight Come?
  • Spanish Patriot Source unknown
  • The Bus Driver Source unknown
  • The Embezzler Prokope, Vol. 11, #5
  • The Emptiness of Religion In Christ, Radio Bible Class Publications, pp. 11-12
  • The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York
  • The Perfect Murder Today in the Word, October 3, 1992
  • The Prairie Fire Erwin Lutzer, Failure, The Back Door to Success.
  • Thomas Edison James Newton, Uncommon Friends.
  • Torture Source unknown
  • Unholy Made Holy Source unknown
  • What's Good for the Soul Source: InterVarsity Press, quoted in Lifeline, Summer, 1997
  • White Out John V. Chervokas, How to Keep God Alive from 9 to 5.
  • Witnessed to Daughter's Killer Source unknown