God loved me before I actually was.

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.