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Memory Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way…
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie