The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

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.

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.