This is the only way the evil one can be made good. Jesus' will to love would rather be struck twice than return a single blow. Love surpasses all things. It admits no other emotion. In marriage too it stays faithful and combats any separation or divorce.
Love permeates hidden prayer as forgiveness.
It determines public conduct when the will for total reconciliation is absolute, embracing even the enemy -yes, him in particular. Rather than ever returning cursing and hatred, injury and enmity, whether singly or collectively, it never takes the slightest part in hostility, quarreling or war. This living fellowship of hearts, in a firmly welded bond of all working forces and material goods, stands out in thorough contrast to the conduct of the whole world. This necessarily causes particular bitterness in quarters where people are being recruited for deeds of violence that are justified in ideological terms. For here every hostile action is rejected outright, no matter what weighty justification is found for it.