Wednesday, April 29, 2009

whispering prayers... howling war cries

If we do not learn to listen to other people when they are whispering prayers in their sanctuaries, we may have to meet them later when they are howling war cries over a battlefield.


James H. Billington, Librarian of Congres, “Culture, Memory, and Technology,” Sewanee Review 109 no.2 (Spring 2001): p.218-26 as quoted in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.463

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