“The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he cant play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since ...”

“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on the truth of the whole matter is very simp...”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”

“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”

“Coming from where we do, its a rough adjustmentliving here. He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. Its true what they say about life in the...”

“This wasnt the Dark Ages, and she wasnt living in a third world nation where women didnt have any rights and were treated unequally.”

“Coming from where we do, it’s a rough adjustment—living here.” He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. “It’s true what they say about life i...”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”