Choices: Making Right Decisions in a Complex World

by Lewis B. Smedes

Book Overview

In these guidelines for making solid decisions based on a consistent pattern of moral values, the author of Forgive and Forget shows us how to live with a clear conscience and identifies core values that allow us to grow and become the best people we can be.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060674156
• ISBN13: 9780060674151
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Hard nosed approach to ethical decision-making.

I find Smedes' approach to ethical decision-making extremely helpful, especially for people who do not settle for hand-me-down rules and simplistic solutions. While I do not agree with all that Smedes concludes in all of his ethical musings, I find myself constantly challenged by what he writes, to think critically about life's issues, which are often complex, and full of tensions, paradoxes and uncertainties. Every chapter gives an insightful, real-life and highly readable account of the principles(outlined in the Table of Contents) he commends to us in ethical decision-making. I find that his emphasis on developing the character rather than having the 'right answers' exactly right and his conclusion that 'getting it right is not the most important thing, being forgiven is'(rough paraphrase) tugs at the heart of all who yearn and desire to live right and yet find ourselves falling repeatedly into the hands of grace and hence energized by it.