If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

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

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

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

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.