“The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.”

“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.”

“When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.”

“...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.”

“The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.”

“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

“You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.'And how long is that going to take?'I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.'That could be a long time.'I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.”