All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.