The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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.

Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

I do not dislike teaching when the boys behave themselves.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.