true that it may and must be the perennial undertone, basis and support accompanying and upholding all other human actions. It is certainly true that fundamentally it can never be broken off, that we fall from grace if we cease to pray, that whatever is not done in prayer certainly cannot be well done before God. But it is even more true—and necessarily more compelling from the ethical standpoint—that this constant state may and must continually take concrete form in individual moments and specific