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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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

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Vision

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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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Society

Respect

" 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. "

" 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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Wrong

Him

" 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. "

" Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. "

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

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Forgives

Been

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lewis B. Smedes

History

Inevitable

" Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. "

Lewis B. Smedes

Wrong

Sense

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

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

Lewis B. Smedes

Knowing

Nothing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat. "

" 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. "

" It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people. "