It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.