If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.