Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

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

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.