Lewis B. Smedes Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.”

“No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.”

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

“The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”