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" God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. "

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" I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. "

" Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. "

" Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. "

" God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. "

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

" You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. "

" Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. "

" Without forgiveness, there's no future. "

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

" Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. "

" We would like to see you departing peacefully. "

" In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. "

" 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. "

" Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. "

" Hate has no place in the house of God. "

" Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? "

" God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. "

" My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. "

" If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. "

" But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. "

" I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. "

" The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. "

" People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. "

" It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela. "

" 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. "

" Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. "

" Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. "