Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.

I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.

God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.