God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.