"The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized."
"When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words."
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Source: Quoted in Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary, ed. David McCord (1936)
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