I pray because I am happy, not because I am unhappy. I did not turn to God in unhappiness … to get consolation, to get something from God. I was praying because I wanted to thank God. No matter how dull the day, how long the walk seemed, if I felt sluggish at the beginning of the walk, the words I had been saying insinuated themselves into my heart before I had finished, so that on the trip back I neither prayed nor thought, but was filled with exultation … My very experience as a radical, my whole make-up, led me to want to associate myself with others, with the masses, in loving and praising God.DOROTHY DAYTHE LONG LONELINESS (HARPER, 1952)I travel slowly, one step at a time, towards eternity, because I am carrying two big suitcases. One of them contains my sins, and in th