One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.
Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.
Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.
You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.
Human beings are fundamentally good.
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.
Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.
God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.
[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic view of women. He would say things like women must not talk in church, must cover their heads, they mustn't talk and must remember that it was a woman who first tempted and this whole mess started because women messed us up. So you can read it in such a way that it justifies polygamy.
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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