Best Lewis B. Smedes Sayings
- 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… Bitter
- To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Discover
- It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Forgive
- 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… Call
- None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our… Adjustments
- Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He… All
- The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name. Call
- Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we… Best
- Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. Fairness
- God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat. Anyone
- 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… Attack
- Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human. Help
- 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. Depend
- Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck. Forsake
- Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. Cause
- 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… Argument
- The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. All
- 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. Anxious
- No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. Been
- 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… Act
- As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ. Christ
- True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with… Apostles
- 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… All
- God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives. Believe
- Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community. Common
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