Another element of discipleship is nonviolence. This is what characterises the Christian life – the teaching of Jesus to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies, to give blessings to those who curse us. This isn’t the way of the world. This isn’t the way most political institutions or countries operate. They take revenge, they retaliate, they get their own back. But the Christian disciple is on his or her way to understand what nonviolence means, what it means, as Jesus himself showed us in his own life, to be nonviolent.
(Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 1: Discipleship by Laurence Freeman OSB )
