Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love each other and help each other, kind of like a messed up extended family.

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.

How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

In every broken marriage, there is at least one person whose heart is hard against God.

Rejection brings out the worst in people. Love and acceptance bring out the best.

Teach us how to openly express love for one another, and keep us from any laziness or selfishness that would cause us to neglect to do that. Help us to refuse to speak words that tear down, but only words that build up (Ephesians 4:29).

Lord, I pray for an end to this conflict and a breaking of the hold strife has on us. Take away the hurt and the armor we've put up to protect ourselves. Lift us out of the pit of unforgiveness. Speak through us so that our words reflect Your love, peace, and reconciliation. Tear down this wall between us and teach us how to walk through it. Enable us to rise up from this paralysis and move into the healing and wholeness You have for us.