Lewis B. Smedes

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.

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These are some quotes by American author Lewis B. Smedes Author, who lived between 1921 and 2002.

Quotes by Lewis B. Smedes

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

Lewis B. Smedes

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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

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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.

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