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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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.
We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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?"
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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.
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.