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

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.

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

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.