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Person 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we…
- 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…
- It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our…
- What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a…
- I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are…
- When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him…
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- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe