This top-drawer resource brings together 6500 quotations under more than 200 subject headings such as Aspiration, Devotion, Ideals, Meditation, Revelation, Sacrifice, and Wonder. All major religious traditions are included and a laudable feature is the mix of ancient with contemporary sources. In these pages you'll find the spiritual wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas and Rabbi Harold Kushner, Socrates and Paul Tillich, St. Augustine and Annie Dillard, St. Gregory of Nyssa and Flannery O'Connor.