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Forgiveness is an emotional process that involves coming to see a wrongdoer as a moral equal again, and inviting them back into the place reserved in your heart for the rest of the world. To forgive someone who has harmed you is to forswear bitter feelings, which is to surrender a certain righteous power—the permission granted by society for retaliation. It is also therefore a kind of sacrifice. Only divinity can demand that of someone; no human being can demand it of another. And the Christian directive is especially exacting, requiring forgiveness for others in order to be forgiven oneself.
Witness: Inside America’s Death Chambers - The Atlantic
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Hardi sailed from Marseille disguised as a funeral vessel, trimmed in black with tears painted on her sails, supposedly carrying a dead Polish nobleman to the Baltic; beyond Gibraltar she swung west toward Charleston, her hold packed with munitions.
The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
Love confirms who a person is, and that they are worth loving. Politics do not confirm who a person is.
Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
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