Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

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

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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