The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

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 virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

I love women. I worship women. Don’t want to be any other woman but myself.