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Hurt 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He…
- No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who have hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
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- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
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