In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!
If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.
China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.
Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.
Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice. . . you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said. . . One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate
Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.