There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

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

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.