God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.