Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

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.