"Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you."

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Source : Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press

Lewis B. Smedes

#Pain Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Way Quotes

“The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.”
“Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological.Â The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.”
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”

Source : Montreal Medical Journal Sept. 1902, p. 696
“Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.”
“I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.”
“It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.”
“Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction”
“When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.”

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