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Way 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.…
- Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
- God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I…
- God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving…
- 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 is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
- Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without…
- 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…
- God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
- Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably…
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