“We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.”

Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

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.

There is no medicine to cure a fool!

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

Fortune, that favors fools.