A Quote by Lewis B. Smedes
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
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The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.
A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
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