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‘Peace-making,’ said the bishop, ‘is at best the patching of an old coat. To make true peace, the pax Christi, is to weave the seamless garment.’

‘No,’ said the bishop, ‘you can’t force peace on a situation. All you can do is hold the door open and invite peace to enter.’

“Names are wrong. Men are imprisoned just their names. Angels and animals don’t need names. I do not like my name. It means “great, powerful”. I don’t want to be great and powerful. The world is sick because of people wanting to be great and powerful.”

“A farmer in Shetland has, let us say, seven sons. He dies, that good old tiller of the earth, in the course of nature. His barn goes to this one, his burr to this other, this field to the third, that pasture to the fourth, the house to the fifth, the mill to the sixth, ox and dung hill to the simpleminded seventh. What was once a good farm bound together in plenteousness and peace becomes a nest of envy, greed”