No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.

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

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.