I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can't do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies' children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude. The

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Something to forgive is a purer joy than geometry.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.