If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.