Lewis B. Smedes Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.”

“As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.”

“Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.”

“Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.”

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

“Some people still make promises and keep those they make. When they do, they help make life around them more stably human.”

“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.”