I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.