To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.