God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.