Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

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.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

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

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