The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

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?'

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone. I think, myself, that it is an obscenity.

Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

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.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators -- the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong.

I've never doubted that apartheid -- because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil -- was going to bite the dust eventually.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.