We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.