Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.