We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

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