Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth9 May 1921
CountryUnited States of America
friday jesus looks
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
worry exit impossible
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
war smart widows-and-orphans
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.
simple offers
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
congratulations thinking traps
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.
peace war heart
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.
sacrifice principles humans
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
peace lying those-who-lie
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
convicted forbidden priests steve visit
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.
bring death disgrace liable peace prison war
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
affected reflecting sort
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.
entered
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.
charged country faith highly reflective religion seminary
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.