The Hour Calls For Moral Grandeur And

In A Controversy, The Instant We Feel Anger, We Have Already Ceased Striving For Truth And Have Begun Striving For Ourselves.

Prayer Begins At The Edge Of Emptiness.

Awe Enables Us To See In The World Intimations Of The Divine, To Sense In Small Things The Beginning Of Infinite Significance, To Sense The Ultimate In The Common And The Simple, To Feel In The Rush Of The Passing The Stillness Of The Eternal.

One Of The Major Symptoms Of The General Crisis Existent In Our World Today Is Our Lack Of Sensitivity To Words. We Use Words As Tools. We Forget That Words Are A Repository Of The Spirit. The Tragedy Of Our Times Is That The Vessels Of The Spirit Are Broken. We Cannot Approach The Spirit Unless We Repair The Vessels. Reverence For Words - An Awareness Of The Wonder Of Words, Of The Mystery Of Words - Is An Essential Prerequisite For Prayer. By The Word Of God The World Was Created.

Indeed, The Sort Of Crimes And Even The Amount Of Delinquency That Fill The Prophets Of Israel With Dismay Do Not Go Beyond That Which We Regard As Normal, As Typical Ingredients Of Social Dynamics. To Us A Single Act Of Injustice--cheating In Business, Exploitation Of The Poor--is Slight; To The Prophets, A Disaster. To Us Injustice Is Injurious To The Welfare Of The People; To The Prophets It Is A Deathblow To Existence: To Us, An Episode; To Them, A Catastrophe, A Threat To The World.