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.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

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