Occupation: Priest Birth: May 9, 1921 Death: April 30, 2016
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal..
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can..
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers..
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being..
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 death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred..
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxe….
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope..
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect '….
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed..
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible..
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….
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits..
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood..
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?.
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,….
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!.
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dol….
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..
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live..
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….