Best Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
- How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has… Bruiser
- Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can.… Abusing
- Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we… Bet
- Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your… Clap
- When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our… Begin
- The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us. Bitterness
- When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with… Act
- Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick… Avoid
- Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on… Another Direction
- Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we… Accountable
- Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some… Accomplish
- We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. Feel
- My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me. Been
- Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you. All
- When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you… Cut
- Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on… Another Person
- The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. God
- Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without… Awhile
- To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence. Existence
- The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both… Both
- I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith.… Common
- The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the… Any
- Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the… Carry
- Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is… Component
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Begun
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