Daniel Berrigan Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• 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 it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Eye, Men

• 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 total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Heart

  Daniel Berrigan (2007). “No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Impossible, Seems

• 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, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Children, War

  "The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Lying, Those Who Lie

  Daniel Berrigan (1996). “Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Makers

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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