“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

The awe of God is wisdom.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?

It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.

If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

And better had they ne’er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.