We grow small trying to be great.

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.