Lewis Smedes
9 quotes.
Quotes by Lewis Smedes
- Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
- 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 to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
- Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
- Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
- It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
- Waiting is the hardest work of hope.
- When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
- You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.