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

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

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. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. 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. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.