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"Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects."
"If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God."
"Without forgiveness, there is no future."
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."
"For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect."
"Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen."
"Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional."
"Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others."
"Peace without justice is an impossibility."
"Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations."
"Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?""
"Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are."
"There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable."
"When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal."
"If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
"If I diminish you, I diminish myself"
"People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful."
"I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian."
"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose."