The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression.

An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.