Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.

Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain!

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

God creates the world anew in each moment.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.