Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.

Love heals scars love left

Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Nothing heals like love and time