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Forgiveness Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes
- 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 vision.…
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
- Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you…
- You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing…
- When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is…
- Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As…
- We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes…
- Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat…
- ...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
- If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the…
- With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really…
- We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
- The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off…
- Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
- I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of…
- God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
- A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
- Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people…
- I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.…
- Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust…
- God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. — Francis Bacon
- This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. — Francis Bacon
- I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. — Alan Ball
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
- I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while… — Mario Batali