Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving,… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share
