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.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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.

The awe of God is wisdom.

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.