There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.