Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.