Free people Quote by Lewis B. Smedes

“If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.” quote by Lewis B. Smedes — Download Open image

“If you cannot free people from their wrongs and see them as the needy people they are, you enslave yourself to your own painful past and by fastening yourself to the past, you let your hate become your future.”

Lewis B. Smedes

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Free people Hate Ifs Needy Needy people Our future Painful Painful past Past People Time Your future

More by Lewis B. Smedes

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

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

Image

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

Lewis B. Smedes

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Lewis B. Smedes

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

Image

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Lewis B. Smedes

Image

Gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

Lewis B. Smedes

Image

Explore all 106 Lewis B. Smedes quotes

More Free people quotes

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people.…

Greg Gutfeld

Image

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom,…

Dick Armey

Image

After the revolution the borders were left open. Pens were free, expression was free, political parties were free. Even if these people are not…

Ayatollah Khomeini

Image

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson…

Anthony Kennedy

Image

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest…

Dwight D. Eisenhower