Daniel Berrigan

“Some of us are born with a sense of urgency. We are not comfortable in this world. We are not at home here.”

“What we want is a revolution that is not bloody, but a revolution of the heart.”

“The victory is not in the outcome, but in the truth of the struggle.”

“The cost of discipleship is to be found in the marketplace, not in a monastery.”

“We have chosen to say, with the gift of our liberty, if necessary our lives: the violence stops here, the death stops here, the suppression of the truth stops here, the war stops here.”

“If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.”

“We are not called by God to be successful, but to be faithful.”

“Don't just do something, stand there.”

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

“Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children.”

“But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of the truth?”

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of the cemetery.”

“Knowing that we can't have everything is the beginning of wisdom.”

“One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something; and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.”

“The poet is one who is unafraid of the consequences of his vision.”

“The Christian life is a long obedience in the same direction.”

“The good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere.”