E. Stanley Jones
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In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call The Morning of the Open Heart, in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here? My reply was: No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed. In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

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