Maybe you've heard that we grant forgiveness for ourselves, not for them. But how does one forgive someone who hasn't even asked for it? How does one forgive someone who has asked, but doesn't deserve our forgiveness? In this episode I'll share a secret that makes forgiving easier.
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Reading:
The Art of Forgiving - Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve - Lewis B. Smedes
Quotes:
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Lewis B. Smedes
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” - Mark Twain
“When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.” -Lewis B. Smedes
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” -Kahlil Gibran
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