We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

There can be no healing without truth.

People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.

We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.