We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death, ” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.