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We Do Not Step Out Of The World When We Pray; We Merely See The World In A Different Setting. The Self Is Not The Hub But The Spoke Of The Revolving Wheel. It Is Precisely The Function Of Prayer To Shift The Center Of Living From Self-consciousness To Self-surrender.

Being Is Transcended By A Concern For Being. Our Perplexity Will Not Be Solved By Relating Human Existence To A Timeless, Subpersonal Abstraction Which We Call Essence. We Can Do Justice To Human Being Only By Relating It To The Transcendent Care For Being.

Man Is Naturally Self-centered And He Is Inclined To Regard Expediency As The Supreme Standard For What Is Right And Wrong. However, We Must Not Convert An Inclination Into An Axiom That Just As Man's Perceptions Cannot Operate Outside Time And Space, So His Motivations Cannot Operate Outside Expediency; That Man Can Never Transcend His Own Self. The Most Fatal Trap Into Which Thinking May Fall Is The Equation Of Existence And Expediency.

When Religion Speaks Only In The Name Of Authority Rather Than With The Voice Of Compassion, Its Message Becomes Meaningless.

It Is Of The Essence Of Virtue That The Good Is Not To Be Done For The Sake Of A Reward.