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" Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. "
Lewis B. Smedes
Common Sense
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People
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" Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human. "
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" The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops. "
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" Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision. "
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" Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. "
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" In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account. "
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" The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. "
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" Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due. "
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" The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. "
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" Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body. "
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" Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. "
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" The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. "
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" The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it. "
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" Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts. "
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" Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. "
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" God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives. "
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" To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. "
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" When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did. "
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" Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. "
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" Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. "
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" Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. "
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" Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit. "
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" My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the youngest. Only a couple of months old when he died. "
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" What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. "
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" True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. "
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