“Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power”

The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

We worship God through our questions.

Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.

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

Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.

Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

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

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

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 accord.