FORGIVENESS

'Forgiving heals your memory as you change your memory's vision. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumour out of you inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.' 

Lewis Smedes in Elaine Storkey, The Search for Intimacy, p.89. 

THE PURPOSE OF SEXUALITY

'Sexuality is the human drive toward intimate communion.' 

Lewis Smedes in Dan Brennan, Sacred Unions,. Sacred Passions, p.25. 

DESPAIR

'...the gospel tells us not only how bad pride is; it says the same about despair...'
Lewis Smedes in Cornelius Platinga Jr., Beyond Doubt, p.95.