“We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.”

Much depends on your attitude. If you are filled with negative judgment and anger, then you will feel separate from other people. You will feel lonely.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.

A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.

We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.

We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.

I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible.

We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.