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Lewis B. Smedes


American
1921
Author
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.


Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: People Person Two
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Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.


Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: Work Very Hard
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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
Tags: God Who World
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
Lewis B. Smedes
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.
Lewis B. Smedes
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: God Because Our
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.
Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: More Than Nothing
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.
Lewis B. Smedes
Tags: God Life Them
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
Tags: Me Like Think