Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.