Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

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.

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

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.