Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.