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

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

A soul can create only when alone.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

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