I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.