We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

We are made for loving.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.