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" 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. "
Lewis B. Smedes
People
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Grace
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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. "
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Doubt
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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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" 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. "
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" It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. "
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" God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat. "
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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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" Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people. "
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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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" 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. "
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Anxious
Long
Our
" 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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Help
Life
Human
" The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. "
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Ourselves
Most
Subtle
" 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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Accept
Society
Respect
" To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. "
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Set
Forgive
Forgiveness
" 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. "
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Justice
Injury
" 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. "
Lewis B. Smedes
Community
World
Teacher
" No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. "
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He
Forgives
Been
" Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. "
Lewis B. Smedes
Knowing
Nothing
Like
" 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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Take Care
Care
Father
" You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. "
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Forgiveness
Hurt
Wish
" 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. "
Lewis B. Smedes
Horror
Forgive
Face
" As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ. "
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Faith
Find
Jesus Christ
" 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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History
Inevitable
Us
" 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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Body
Nothing
Free
" Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. "
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Seeing
Reality
Hard
" The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart. "
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Heart
Hands
Grace
" 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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Children
Parents
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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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Mind
Taxes
Way
" 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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Need
Better
Vision
" 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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True
Believe
Good
" Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. "
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Forgiving
Love
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