Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

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.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.