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.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

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

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.