It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.