Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

The awe of God is wisdom.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.