“Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense”

“Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.”

“Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest.”

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.”

“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.”