But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

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.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

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.