The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

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

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.

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

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.