Quotes of Daniel Berrigan - somelinesforyou

“ The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ You can't bank on the outcome. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ I'd like to die with my boots on. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ I'd like to die with my boots on. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ It's not going to be easy to change things. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

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

- Daniel Berrigan

“ Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ I'd like to die with my boots on. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ You can't bank on the outcome. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ It's not going to be easy to change things. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ 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

“ I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ 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

“ And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ 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

“ It's not going to be easy to change things. ”

- Daniel Berrigan

“ It's not going to be easy to change things. ”

- Daniel Berrigan
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