Lewis Smedes: Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted…
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.
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- Where you are from is not who you are.
- Every lesson that you learn from your past that makes you better, transforms a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
- If you're going to have great relationships you're going to have to become 1) A great forgiver and 2) A great repenter!
- Your life story is your life story. Your power comes from this life story. Not about living perfect, but that you are learning from your life story.
- Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.