
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

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

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

God is not a diversion.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

Dream! Dream! And then go for it!

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a hero.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

God is not a Christian.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

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

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
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People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

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.

Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

The world needs a revolution led by women

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.