How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Love is much more demanding than law.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.