No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.