The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.