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Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.
— Lewis B. Smedes
God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.
— Lewis B. Smedes
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
— Lewis B. Smedes
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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.
— Lewis B. Smedes
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Waiting is the hardest work of hope.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
— Lewis B. Smedes
As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The secret of grace is that it can be all right at the center even when it is all wrong on the edges.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.
— Lewis B. Smedes
My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
— Lewis B. Smedes
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
— Lewis B. Smedes
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
— Lewis B. Smedes
We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them.
— Lewis B. Smedes
We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.
— Lewis B. Smedes
To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.
— Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
— Lewis B. Smedes
