“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.”

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

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

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

The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

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

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.