We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.