Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world—everything is hidden in you.

The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.

A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.

Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.

If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?I’m humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.