Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Lewis B. Smedes
American Author
Born: Aug 20, 1921
Died: Dec 19, 2002
Believe Forgive God People Will You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes
You Free Prisoner Discover Forgive Set
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 to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Lewis B. Smedes
Hope Moving On Future Change Memory Remember Past Our Way We Cannot Bitter Deleted Instead New Healed Does Erase Forget New Way Forgiving Cannot Creates
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 friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Lewis B. Smedes
Loyalty You Partner Others Some Fact He Bound Invisible Friend Person Fibers In Fact Disloyal Us Act Stranger Special Each Belongs Treats
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiveness You Hurt Will Power Wish Those Feel Know Well Begun Them Who Recall
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Revenge Problem Long Pain Both Parity Stuck Never Demanded Ties Score Escalator Stops The Problem With Injured
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Evil Face Horror Only Excuse Look Call Smother Shock Forgive Then Us Full Tolerate
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Time People Grace Remember Word Depend Live Other Promise Powerful Means Each Keeping Hardly
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. Lewis B. Smedes
Ourselves Tell Lies Most Subtle
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police. Lewis B. Smedes
Privacy Police Secret Potential Without Precious Personal Prying Victims Right
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. Lewis B. Smedes
People Sense Pay Our Tells Wrong Fairness Us Should
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
Justice Victim Complement Seeks Repair Replacement Rehabilitation Injury
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Lie First Politicians Doubt Believe Lying Others Corporate Immoral No Doubt Shareholders Know Because Intellectually Public CEOs Themselves Then Who Why
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Teacher World Citizen Long Leader Sit Community Would Student Failed Performance Nobody Sinful Call Exist Account Accountable Grade Jury Where Held Ever
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Face Long Past Our Segments Unchangeable Stuck Recreate Private Histories Anxious Them
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt. Lewis B. Smedes
Hurt Unless Has-Been No-One He Been Forgives Really
As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ. Lewis B. Smedes
Faith Path Christ Find Only New Read Testament Salvation New Testament Informed Jesus Jesus 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. Lewis B. Smedes
Good People Will Believe Assume Saved Say Good Reason Only True Implied Most Repent Confess Did Apostles Reason Evangelicals Expressly
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. Lewis B. Smedes
Fear Behavior Judgment Considered Intolerance Fellow Fellow Human Beings Judging Passing American Modern Human Human Beings Act Beings Suffer Medieval
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. Lewis B. Smedes
Justice Pain Christian Every Society Arise Almost Principle Dealt Causing Did Any Them
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Love God Justice Son World Penalty Punishing Cross Crucified He Unspeakable Himself His Sinners Sins Person Required Paid Jesus

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