Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.