When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."
God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.
I have a lot of time for young people.
Forgiving is good for your health.
We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.
I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.
Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.
We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.
When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
God loved me before I actually was.
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
"We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons."
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