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...trying to pray . . . As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward . . . The torrent that swept through me in 1937 and the first months of 1938 swept my spirit clear to discern one truth: 'Man without mysticism is a monster.' I do not mean, of course, that I denied the usefulness of reason and knowledge. What I grasped was that religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless and forever fail-the point at which man senses...
...which to fit two large lecture rooms, plus workshops, conference rooms, offices, and storage space. They got all that in with enough room left over for exhibition halls and a terrace. The rooms are set up for scientific and other demonstrations in the best style of modern, discern as you learn, education...
...Adams House Wine Tasting Society is a group of about 30 Gold Coasters who gather bi-monthly to savor and discern the peculiar essence of a number of wines...
...national Brotherhood Week, Collier's asked some leading citizens to quote their favorite Bible passages. Harry S. Truman: "Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad . . ." (I Kings 3:9). Senator Robert A. Toft: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit . . . Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7: 18-20). U.S. Steel's President Benjamin A. Fairless: "Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy...
...guest at the Lord Mayor of London's Guildhall banquet, pumping out, to roars of well-fed applause, an oration on "the virtues of patriotism, religion, and motherhood." "I knew ... I was behaving like a mountebank ... I saw myself as completely insincere . . . And more, I began dimly to discern how much attention I had paid to the wrong things in life, and how little to the right...