I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature, but it lacks something that it can only receive from outside and above itself. But when the light shines in it, it becomes in a manner transformed into light and seems to lose its nature in the splendor of a higher nature, the nature of the light that is in it.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.