Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Lewis B. Smedes (8)

Birth:	1921
Death:	19th December, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Professor, Theologian

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Then, Smother, Shock, Horror, Us, Tolerate, Call, Full, Only, Evil, Excuse, Face, Forgive, Look

• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Begun, Recall, Feel, Forgiveness, Will, Well, Them, Those, Hurt, Know

• It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Two, Reunited, Forgive, Person, Takes
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  Forgiving does not erase your bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot change creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Topics in Future, Inspirational, Memory, Motivational, Past

  Tags in Erase, Forgiving

• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Lewis B. Smedes

• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

• 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.

  Lewis B. Smedes
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  You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Tags in Hurt, Know, Forgiveness