We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

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

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.