We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

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

Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.