Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

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  Perdonar no borra el amargo pasado. Un recuerdo curado no es un recuerdo borrado. En cambio, perdonar lo que no podemos olvidar crea una nueva forma de recordar. Cambiamos el recuerdo de nuestro pasado por una esperanza para nuestro futuro.

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  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Heartbroken

  "Healing by Degrees" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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• La esperanza es para nuestro espíritu lo que el oxígeno para nuestros pulmones. Pierde la esperanza y morirás. Puede que no te entierren durante un tiempo, pero sin esperanza estás muerto por dentro. La única manera de afrontar el futuro es volar hacia él con las alas de la esperanza.... La esperanza es la energía del alma. La esperanza es la energía del mañana.

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  Hope, Oxygen, Wings

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• Perdonar es liberar a un prisionero y descubrir que el prisionero eras tú.

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  Inspiración, Felicidad, Inspiración

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• Cuando liberas al malhechor del mal, cortas un tumor maligno de tu vida interior. Liberas a un prisionero, pero descubres que el verdadero prisionero eras tú mismo.

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  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Puedes perdonar a alguien casi cualquier cosa. Pero no se puede tolerar todo... No tenemos que tolerar lo que la gente hace sólo porque la perdonamos por hacerlo. Perdonar nos cura personalmente. Tolerarlo todo sólo nos perjudica a todos a largo plazo.

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  Forgiveness, Running, Hurt

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• Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And He invites us all to forgive each other.

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  Perdón, Herir, Personas

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• Perdonar es el trabajo más duro del amor y su mayor riesgo. Si lo transformas en algo que nunca debió ser, puede convertirte en un felpudo o en un manipulador insufrible. Perdonar parece casi antinatural. Nuestro sentido de la justicia nos dice que la gente debe pagar por el mal que hace. Pero perdonar es el poder del amor para romper las reglas de la naturaleza.

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  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.

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  Forgiveness, Time, Heart

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• Sabrás que el perdón ha comenzado cuando recuerdes a quienes te hicieron daño y sientas el poder de desearles lo mejor.

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  Perdón, Herir, Perdonar

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• You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy.

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  Hurt, Pain, Integrity

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• La diferencia entre culpa y vergüenza es muy clara... en teoría. Nos sentimos culpables por lo que hacemos. Sentimos vergüenza por lo que somos. Una persona siente culpa porque hizo algo malo. Una persona siente vergüenza porque es algo malo. Podemos sentirnos culpables porque mentimos a nuestra madre. Podemos sentir vergüenza porque no somos la persona que nuestra madre quería que fuéramos.

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  Mother, Lying, Differences

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• Aferramos nuestros sentimientos al momento en que nos hirieron, dotándolo de inmortalidad. Y dejamos que nos asalte cada vez que nos viene a la mente. Viaja con nosotros, duerme con nosotros, se cierne sobre nosotros mientras hacemos el amor y nos acecha mientras morimos. Nuestro odio ni siquiera tiene la decencia de morir cuando mueren aquellos a quienes odiamos, pues es un parásito que chupa NUESTRA sangre, no la suya. Sólo hay un remedio para ello. [perdón]

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  Forgiveness, Hurt, Hate

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• When forgiveness is necessary, don't wait too long. We must begin to forgive, because without forgiving, we choke off our own joy; we kill our own soul. People carrying hate and resentment can invest themselves so deeply in that resentment that they gradually define themselves in terms of it.

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  Hate, Long, People

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• With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

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  Forgiveness, Hurt, Stupid

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

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  Pain, Forgiving, Way

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

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• Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

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  Forgiveness, Husband, Children

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• Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

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  Waiting, Hardest

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• I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.

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  Gratitude, Joy, Feelings

  "A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude".

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• Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

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  Forgiveness, Pain, Memories

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• When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

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  Forgiveness, Hurt, Giving Up

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• The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

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  Hate, Bitterness, Heal

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• El perdón verbal, por muy sincero que sea, funciona mejor cuando no exigimos la respuesta que deseamos. Quiero decir que cuando decimos a la gente que les perdonamos, debemos dejarles libertad para que respondan a nuestras buenas noticias como quieran. Si la respuesta no es la que esperábamos, podemos irnos a casa y disfrutar de nuestra propia curación en privado.

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  Forgiveness, Healing, Home

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• Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

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  Running, Spiritual, Self

  Lewis B. Smedes (1976). “Sex for Christians: the limits and liberties of sexual living”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• 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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  Espiritual, Dolor, Mentira

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• Se necesita una persona para perdonar, se necesitan dos personas para reunirse.

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  Inspiración, Perdón, Dejar ir

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