Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from...

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one’s eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from...

The first duty of love is to listen.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of...

Man’s ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of...

There is no love which does not become help.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do...