Occupation: Priest Birth: May 9, 1921 Death: April 30, 2016
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed..
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?.
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood..
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect '….
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is tot….
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers..
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible..
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are wo….
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!.
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard,….
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dol….
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal..
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through no….
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits..
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can..
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neithe….
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred..
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope..
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the….
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap..
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked i….