“As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.”

“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.”

“...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.”

“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.”

“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”