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" I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole. "

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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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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" You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. "

" Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. "

" 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. "

" To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. "

" 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. "

" Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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" We are anxious in the face of our unchangeable past; we long to recreate segments of our private histories, but we are stuck with them. "

" Promise keeping is a powerful means of grace in a time when people hardly depend on each other to remember and live by their word. "

" 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. "

" At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son. "

" The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. "

" Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human. "

" The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it. "

" Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. "

" 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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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Support

" 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. "

" Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. "

" 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. "

" Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. "

" Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. "

" No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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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. "

" As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ. "

" Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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Him

" 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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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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. "

" No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves. "