Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

A religious man is a person ... whose greatest passion is compassion.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!