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.

D. D). He was survived by his wife three children two grandchildren and one brother.

Lewis Benedictus Smedes (1921 — December 19 2002) was a renowned Christian author ethicist and theologian in the Reformed tradition. He was a professor of theology and ethics for twenty-five years at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena California.