‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds