Kent Haruf Quotes

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

Love always overcomes hate.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.