The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

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

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

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

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.