The Essence Of Man Is Not What

Feel In The Rush Of The Passing The Stillness Of The Eternal

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.

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.

Prayer Begins Where Our Power Ends.

I Did Not Ask For Success; I Asked For Wonder.