If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.
There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.
There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.
Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.
Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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