We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.