When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.