"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."

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

Lewis B. Smedes

#Real Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Release Quotes

“I once woke up at a random guy's house and i didn't actually know who he was.”
“Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.”
“To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.”
“I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.”
“I'm so proud to bring the title of Miss USA back to Nevada.”
“Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable...”
“Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes in whatever creative form; of being on a mission to show that comics are not just for kids; and on a wider level of standing up for individuality against conformity.”
“This is Gods world this is not the medias world.”

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