“New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …”

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

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.

To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with – that’s the way I was raised – but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.