Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.