It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.
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It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count with us as it once did Is the moral tone of the nation its politics, its business life, its literature, its theatre, its movies, its radio networks, its television stations Christian.Robert J. McCracken, D.D.
A man can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of him in the one as in the other.
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We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.
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