There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in ….

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spre….

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else..

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society..

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has….

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous t….

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for somethi….

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ….

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves..

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share..

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time..

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other bein….

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world..

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion..

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature..

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great..

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery..

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge..

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension..

You must build your life as if it were a work of art..