“There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.”

“The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.”

“Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”

“A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.”

“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”

“The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance.Maybe my questions matter.”