Prayer and Action

Yazan: Jaskaran | 06 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Universal

We cannot merely pray to You, O God, to end war;
For we know that You have made the world in a way
That man must find his own path to peace
Within himself and with his neighbor.
- Jack Riemer
Prayer, our conscious contact with God, allows us to move out of our self-will. But we still need to [...]

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