2 Quotes by LEWIS SMEDES

I admit that I often have to hold on to faith by my fingernails. When people I dearly love are in trouble, I sometimes pray for them and then walk away with no real hope that God will actually do something for them. Maybe it is an age thing; maybe I have watched too many people get stuck in the groove of tragedy, with no relief from God that I could see. In any case, I still have to pray for faith in God before I get back my hope for others or myself.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.