Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

You make PEACE with your past by owning your PIECE of the past.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

I try to give as much blanket forgiveness as much as possible in my life because that's the only way you can get past things and move forward. But, conversely, I'd like to be forgiven. In many ways, that's the bigger leap, the bigger transformation and the bigger step forward.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

We all say things sometimes to hurt people, so it's important to forgive and have peace with others and forgive and be at peace with yourself.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

You're as sick as your secrets, and my whole life was a secret, so it's just... it's been really healing, and I've found a lot of inner peace by just owning everything and moving forward from there.

You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I once was.

Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

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

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.