Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.