We protested when the Israeli Defense Forces killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in 50 days. Yet Obama replied with words about the difficult plight of police officers … and the additional $225m in financial support of the Israeli army. Obama said not a mumbling word about the dead Palestinian children but he did call Baltimore black youth ‘criminals and thugs’.

If I am gonna do all the talking, likely I am amongst dead people.

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you’re all gonna die and then you’re gonna be dead for way longer than you’re alive. Like that’s mostly what you’re ever gonna be. You’re just dead people that didn’t die yet.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.