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In the midst of the titanic struggles of ideologies that dominate our age, it is from our prayers that we derive the firmest support for mind and soul.

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The modern world, more than in any preceding epoch, feels the necessity to learn anew how to pray.

There are three kinds of forces: the forces of nature, the spiritual and moral ones, and finally those of history and destiny.

The community does not suffer deficiencies. What is lacking in one individual is made up by the other.

A ladder is the instrument of ascent; it symbolises intensity rising to a climax. this, too, is the meaning of prayer.

It is only in the period between adolescence and maturity and not during the earlier stages of development that any organism can unfold its full strength.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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