Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

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

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

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.