“We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.”

“In all my travels, I’ve never seen a country’s population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.”

“Choosing to forgive without judgement sets you free to soar like a bird.”

“Healing Follows Forgiveness”

“The more you forgive, the more you let go, the more liberated you will become.”

“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.”

“Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing”

“I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life… and hope.”

“We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.”

“Forgiveness is the four leafed clover of life.”

“Your mind will dance with joy and peace when you stop complaining and start forgiving.”

“…those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.”

“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God’s forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.”

“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”