(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

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

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.

(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. 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.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.