Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

American - Author | August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002

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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FatherHeartWifeCareTake Care

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

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GodHeartGraceWorldHandsWhole

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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LiveTimePeopleGracePowerful

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

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PainPeopleLovedWillSome People

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

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PeopleDesertLostWillSome People

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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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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WomanFreeBodyMoralNothingShe

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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PastFaceLongAnxiousStuckOur

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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ForgivenessHistoryInevitableUs

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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FaithPathFindNewJesus 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 good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

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GoodPeopleBelieveSayTrueWill

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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