“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
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<p>"Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." — <i>The New York Times</i> <br><br>A powerful journal of poems and spiritual meditations recorded over several decades by a universally known and admired peacemaker. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, <i>Markings</i> has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers since it was first published in 1964.</p><p><i>Markings</i> is distinctive, as W.H. Auden remarks in his foreword, as a record of "the attempt by a professional man of action to unite in one life the <i>via activa</i> and the <i>via contemplativa</i>." It reflects its author's efforts to live his creed, his belief that all men are equally the children of God and that faith and love require of him a life of selfless service to others. For Hammarskjöld, "the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." <i>Markings</i> is not only a fascinating glimpse of the mind of a great man, but also a moving spiritual classic that has left its mark on generations of readers.</p>
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Dag Hammarskjold
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“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”
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“When you have reached the point where you no longer expect a response, you will at last be able to give in such a way that the other is able to receive, and be grateful. When Love has mature...”
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“I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something e...”
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