American - Author | August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
Lewis B. Smedes
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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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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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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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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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 sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.
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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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No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
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Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.
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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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God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.
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