To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

In the beginning was the relationship.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.