"Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened."

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Lewis B. Smedes

#Spiritual Quotes #Pain Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end.”
“We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.”
“It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for investigative journalism. We're seeing, there's no question, that we're seeing a renaissance of that.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.”
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

Source : "Dorothy and Red". Book by Vincent Sheean, 1963.
“I had now made about 45 pictures, but what had I become? I knew all too well: a phallic symbol. All over the world I was, as a name and personality, equated with sex.”
“Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.”
“For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we desire to desire - will always be like being told, when you desperately want there to be a God, that yes, God exists, as God is simply the good within people.”

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