Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

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

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.