“i fell in love with you
the way flowers
fall in love with rain,
each day,
slowly,
and inevitably,
as gravity.”
“Give me a team of five, with an engineer, physicist, mathematician, coder and composer, and I'll improvise a nation impenetrable, without needing to kill a single soldier.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“The gospel is the declaration that love has entered into the fullness of our violence, fear, and horror in the Person of Jesus; love is the cosmic cure to the totality of death, not simply a soothing word when we are trembling, but the promise that one day all will be well.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“Glaring at the doctor, Kev spoke in Romany. "Ka xlia ma pe tute" (I'm going to shit on you.)
"Which means," Rohan said hastily, "'Please forgive the misunderstanding; let's part as friends.'"
"Te malavel les i menkiva," Kev added for good measure. (May you die of a malignant wasting disease.)
"Roughly translated," Rohan said, "that means, 'May your garden be filled with fine, fat hedgehogs.' Which, I may add, is considered quite a blessing among the Rom.”
Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise
“Horror shows us that violence simply breeds violence, that there is no path to peace through retribution, that no wound is healed through the act of wounding.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“Nonviolent resistance is not the simple acceptance of your lot, the belief that you should simply roll over and die; rather, it is the active pursuit of liberation, the belief that transformation is truly possible without violence.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”
“Only Jesus knows the future. Find pure peace in his presence— moment to moment. How? Talk to Jesus my guiding light.”
Source: Lead with Love
“IF THERE IS NO ORDER THERE CAN BE NO
PEACE.”
Source: Revealed Truth: A Journey From Fear to Faith
“But because, in 1943, there was a deep awareness in official circles that the West had been saved more by ships and guns than it's principles, there was a tacit acceptance that the prime mover in the world was national power.”