Michael Sliney

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” Leo Tolstoy

St. John Paul’s first words from his hospital bed after being shot by Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square were: “Let us pray for my brother who tried to kill me, and whom I have sincerely forgiven.” Shortly after leaving the hospital, he visited Ali in his prison cell to personally forgive him (pictured below).

“Seeing the eternal recompense so disproportionate to the trifling sacrifices of this life, I longed to love Jesus, to love Him ardently, to give him a thousand proofs of tenderness while yet I could do so…” St. Therese of Lisieux

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”― George Eliot