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"Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised."
"We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom."
"We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite."
"We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration."
"I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny."
"If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving."
"Each one of us is not a divine afterthought."
"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."
"God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage."
"Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians."
"Human beings are fundamentally good."
"Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic."
"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."
"Being formed into a nation takes some doing."
"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."
"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."
"When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable."
"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."
"[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air."
"A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt."