Bitter Quote by Lewis B. Smedes Download Open image “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.” — Lewis B. Smedes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bitter Doe Erase Forget the past Forgive and forget Forgive and move on Forgive forget Forgive yourself Forgiven Forgiveness Forgiving Heal Healed Healing Healing heart How to forgive I forgive you Inspirational healing Just move on Memories Memory Moving on in life My past Not forgiving Our memories Our past Past Past memories Power of forgiveness Recent past Remembering the past Self healing Time
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When you forgive, you do not erase the memory. You simply choose to forgive to free yourself from the bitterness. The memory stays, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not the removal of your memory but the removal of your pain. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . . — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness isn’t about forgetting. Unless you lose your memory, you never forget. Forgiveness is about not letting the memory manipulate you like it once… — Nesly Clerge Copy Share Image
Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving,… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
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Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more… — Jane March Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
