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

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.