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

We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."