APRIL 24
"Never forget, when you have been injured, that your duty is not only to refrain from retaliating, not simply to retire upon your dignity and self-respect, not to leave the offender severely alone; but to seek him out, to reason with him, to pray for him, to exhaust all your powers of persuasion, all the resources of gentleness and love. It is only when all this has been done that your responsibility is ended, and you are justified in leaving him to be dealt with by Almighty God."
Life Here and Hereafter, Canon MacColl.
"'Remember,' he said, ... 'that if you forgive him, you become changed yourself. You no longer see what he has done as you see it now. That is the beauty of forgiveness: it enables us better to understand those whom we have forgiven. Perhaps it will enable you to put yourself in his place.'"
The Mettle of the Pasture, James Lane Allen.
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Thoreau.
APRIL 25
"The little hearts that know not how to forgive!"