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.

You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.