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.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

We worship God through our questions.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.