There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

God hopes that we are going to love God back.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.