We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.

Reconciliation means you bury the hatchet, not necessarily the issue.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out.

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution.