A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

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

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

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.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Celebration is a confrontation giving attention to the transcendent meaning of ones actions.

Self respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

When I was young I used to admire intelligent people as I grow older I admire kind people.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a welth of information, but to face sacred moments.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

We worship God through our questions.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.