Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.