We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.