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

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

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

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

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.