Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

Lewis B. Smedes

…Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

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A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

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Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

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Life Is Good

Reality

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul’s needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

People

Soul

Vanity

Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can reverse direction on a tape recorder? We cannot forget on command. So we just have to let the forgetting happen as it will; we shouldn’t rush it, and we certainly should not doubt the genuineness of our forgiving if we happen to remember. The really important thing is that we have the power to forgive what we still do remember.

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Forgiving

Memories

Don’t do it quickly, but don’t wait too long… If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter’s rights to our souls.

Forgiveness

Long

Rights

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don’t have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can’t get him out, get help. It’s available. In the meantime, don’t let him near the kids, and don’t let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There’s an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

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Forgiveness

Husband

Forgiveness is God’s invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

Forgiveness

Hurt

People

Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

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Past

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

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Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

Lewis B. Smedes

…Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul’s needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

Don’t do it quickly, but don’t wait too long… If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter’s rights to our souls.

Forgiveness is God’s invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

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

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