Forgive Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

15 Forgive quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

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Lewis B. Smedes contributes fifteen reflections that balance philosophical depth with everyday relevance, helping you see forgiveness as both a practice and a principle.

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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

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We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

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Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

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The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive,…

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The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

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Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each…

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The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its…

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I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them…

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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the…

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Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were…

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You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive…

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Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we…

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When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way…

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With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We…

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...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

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The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

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Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees…

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I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding…

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Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people…

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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new…

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We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we…

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