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" Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. "
Lewis B. Smedes
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. "
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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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" Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. "
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" Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. "
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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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" 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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" Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. "
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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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" 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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