Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance"..

To err is human, to forgive is divine..

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indi….

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through..

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking..

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens t….

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice..

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is noth….

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to….

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only pra….

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all..

Once you inject fear into a society of people, they become more and more afraid because they don't cross over the neighbourhoods and the only informa….

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when….

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?.

The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where ….

If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as w….

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch..

Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say….

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers..

people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I wou….