Elder Sofian Boghiu: "Love opens the way to any heart."

If the person who hates you plunges a knife into your heart, kiss the hand that holds the knife, because Christ also kissed him who plotted His crucifixion.

A person bows before justice but kneels only before Gentleness. No one can resist gentleness. With gentleness, you can defeat someone who is worse than all the wild beasts. Yet with an angry word, you harm even the best among them. Love opens the way to any heart–as hardened and hopeless as it may be. The despair in your brother’s heart is only healed by love because no door remains closed to love. Love united with Humility is a power that was never equaled by any other power in the world. Any hatred is healed through love. And if the person who hates you plunges a knife into your heart, kiss the hand that holds the knife, because Christ also kissed him who plotted His crucifixion.

–Elder Sofian Boghiu