“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”

They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.

As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.

It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

I don’t really get to attend church. That’s definitely one of the challenges.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.