My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course, mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.

The first stage of forgiveness is the decision not to try to inflict a reciprocal amount of pain on everyone who has caused hurt. When I forgive you, I give up the right to hurt you back.

Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

But, far from feeling Stavros as one of the enemy camp, he counts on him to keep this madwoman, his wife, under control. Through her body, they have become brothers.

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.