Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.

To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.