Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
We can only be human together.
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'
We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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