“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”

Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.

All action is vicarious faith.

The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

By the word of God the world was created.

It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

A soul can create only when alone.

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.

Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.

to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.

For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

The more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen … infectious.

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

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.