114 Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

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.

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.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

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.

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.

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

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

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.