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

Lewis B. Smedes

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" 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. "

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" God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. "

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

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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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" 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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