Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

Self-respect is the root of discipline

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.

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

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

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.