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Long Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
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