If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.