God hopes that we are going to love God back.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.