Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

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

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

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.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.