When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless..

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith..

The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered….

We worship God through our questions..

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry ….

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward..

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living..

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments..

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me..

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals..

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?.

We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving ….

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder..

Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that e….

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated..

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in acc….

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Realit….

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of….

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God..

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor..

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us..