Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.