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.
From Lewis B. Smedes
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.
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.
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.
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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