To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

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.

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.

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.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

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