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.

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

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

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.