+ [nonviolent resistance] avoids the tragic internal inconsistency of the world’s attempts to defeat evil on its own terms and by its own means, however, attempts which inevitably end up perpetuating (even enlarging) the very evil against which one was fighting in the first place. through nonviolent resistance, we soak up evil like a sponge, bearing its outrages, hoping always for the redemption of those who perpetrate it. our goal is never just righting the wrong; we seek a change of heart in the wrongdoer as well, because he or she is also — at least potentially — our brother or sister in Christ, beloved by God.
- lawrence holben

+ … personalism views true internal growth and integration as… making us more fit to be active participants in redemptive history, which has to do not only with the salvation of souls but also the remaking of every element of the wounded creation, including human society.
- lawrence holben

+ “we must believe that God is mysteriously at work in others even then they are most annoyingly at odds with the clarity of our own perspective.”
- lawrence holben