When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Source: internalfrontierseternalidealist
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| Birth: | 1921 |
| Death: | 19th December, 2002 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Professor, Theologian |
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