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It Is Dangerous To Take Human Freedom For Granted, To Regard It As A Prerogative Rather Than As An Obligation, As An Ultimate Fact Rather Than As An Ultimate Goal. It Is The Beginning Of Wisdom To Be Amazed At The Fact Of Our Being Free.

Faith Is Not The Clinging To A Shrine But An Endless Pilgrimage Of The Heart. Audacious Longing, Burning Songs, Daring Thoughts, An Impulse Overwhelming The Heart, Usurping The Mind--these Are All A Drive Towards Serving Him Who Rings Our Hearts Like A Bell. It Is As If He Were Waiting To Enter Our Empty, Perishing Lives.

Wonder, Or Radical Amazement, Is A Way Of Going Beyond What Is Given In Thing And Thought, Refusing To Take Anything For Granted, To Regard Anything As Final. It Is Our Honest Response To The Grandeur And Mystery Of Reality Our Confrontation With That Which Transcends The Given.

The Riches Of The Soul Are Stored Up In Its Memory. This Is The Test Of Character, Not Whether A Man Follows The Daily Fashion, But Whether The Past Is Alive In His Present.

Sometimes We Wish The World Could Cry And Tell Us About That Which Made It Pregnant With Fear-filling Grandeur. Sometimes We Wish Our Own Heart Would Speak Of That Which Made It Heavy With Wonder.