Word: asserted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertaking] charge of a parish. Yet one cannot help feeling that there is something wrong in all this; that young men are not moved by the call to security . . . that, in short, the Gospel should not really be rewritten: 'If any man will come after me, let him assert himself and insist on a house and follow me; for whosoever receiveth not ?550 a year cannot be my disciple...
Second, you stated that America is in a more favorable position to "take the initiative in foreign affairs." You assert that all Eisenhower has done was to continue the foreign policy of his predecessors and to claim credit for winning the Korean War. In the first place, the war is not over; in the second place, Eisenhower has recognized America's position of leadership by supporting Dulles' statement to France and by issuing a threat to Red China warning that if China should resume hostilities in Korea, America would not limit the conflict to Korea. This is not a weak...
...different from clearing its literal meaning. Peter's leadership, he says, was an "example and pattern," nothing more. It was not until the third century that a bishop of Rome cited the Matthew text in support of his primacy. Says Cullmann: "It is arguing in a circle . . . to assert that, since on the one hand the promise of Jesus to Peter exists and on the other hand the fact exists that Rome exercised a primacy from a relatively early date, we therefore must conclude that this primacy rests on that promise...
...principles of Christian conduct . .. [The] Declaration of Independence [says]: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' . . . Thus we assert our conviction of the divine source of a set of absolute spiritual values, and with it we express a conviction that these values must not be subverted...
...feel that you want again to change back to the more serious aspects of your art." Singer Trau-bel's indignant reply: "I will be unable to sign the contract the Metropolitan Opera Association has offered me ... Artistic dignity is not a matter of where one sings ... To assert that art can be found in the Metropolitan Opera House but not in a nightclub is a rank snobbery...