Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

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.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.