Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

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

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.