"received forgiveness" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation in which someone is given or granted forgiveness. For example: After months of repentance, the young man finally received forgiveness from his family.
During our conversations, it became clear that he had sought and received forgiveness from God but he had not been able to forgive himself.
"Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling.
Madam," he held onto his seat, explaining to the public that he had "asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling".
The older Hall also received forgiveness from Pearch's sister, Marianne Scholer, who was a sheriff's deputy in Florida and now teaches at a police academy.
According to previous research, people who have wronged others in the past but haven't received forgiveness tend to feel more depressed, and this study's participants were no exception.
Leave aside the irony of someone who "received forgiveness from God and [his] wife" for his "very serious sin" arguing that the state should perpetually punish others for their sins.
But these borrowers have some high hurdles to clear to receive forgiveness.
Only then, we thought, would the process of requesting and receiving forgiveness be healing and transformative for all involved.
Summaries of new research on how managers can engage their workers and how offenders can receive forgiveness.
Receiving forgiveness may help people feel a greater sense of hope for the relationship and therefore greater motivation to work on it, whereas a lack of forgiveness might make people feel that their efforts will be in vain.
It goes on to acknowledge specific differences in Catholic and Lutheran understandings of certain aspects of the issue, including a disagreement on whether a person remains a sinner after receiving forgiveness.
