If I conceive God as existing separately from the world my ideal will be likewise; but if God is nearness to the world I will stay at my post. My spi… - Aldo Capitini

We must foster in us the awareness that the actual laws are, on the whole, something limited and that there is always need of integration and correction, and this attention to possible changes must be kept especially in regard to more important things. Citizens often use the opposite method: they disobey the small laws, and they obey the important ones. They have not widened their spirit to look above all at these last ones, which at times are unjust impositions. Then disobedience to these becomes a witness.

Nonviolence does good to those who practice it and receive it: it makes each other better, lifts them up, unites them.

Even the death we feel approaching is not absolute but only incidental. At that moment we perform yet another act. The act is the form, the way in which death is faced.