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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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

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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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Lewis B. Smedes

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "