“The awe of God is wisdom.”

And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

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.

When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.

The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.