I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy;… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The moments of grace usually give us more than one good thing we can do, and we do well if we manage… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it… — 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 Image
...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 Image
The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
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 Image
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
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