The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. ……If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.

--Albert Einstein

As used in "Awakening The Buddha Within" by Lama Surya Das, Broadway press, 1997

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human
possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it
has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy
results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A
saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed
long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself,
for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting
the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides
the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His
track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement
with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives
himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels,
he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid
bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in
the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted
shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing
monsters of love.

- Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers (1966)

From the Martin Luther King paper project staff offered the following word on the 9-11 tragedy.

"As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and
discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to
hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using
violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a
long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future
will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."

Excerpted from "The Most Durable Power", a sermon delivered on 6 November 1956 in

Montgomery, Ala. (Reprinted in Christian Century 74 [5 June 1957]: 10-11.)