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Tell Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes
- 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.…
- Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some…
- Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we…
- 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…
- The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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