You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.

To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.

God cannot do for us what he cannot do through us.