I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

The awe of God is wisdom.

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

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.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

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