If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.