We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on me. What I do find challenging is to forgive people for the harms they inflict on my daughters and family. So, I find it challenging when I see somebody else experience hurt. I also look at my children and family and then I realize, I don't stand inside their skin and that is for me a forgiveness practice I still need to engage in.

When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

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

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.