Will Lewis
Will Lewis
William Lewis or Willie Lewis may refer to:...
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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.
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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.
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God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
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Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.
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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.