Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.