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.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

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.

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

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.