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.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.