Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.