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...Bible seeks to penetrate the mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly.' Rather it has a firm grasp upon the meanings of life in history and does not reduce them to meaninglessness by seeking to comprehend them too simply into some realm of rationality. 'Deeper than life the plan of life doth...
...time required for an actor to see the point varies from country to country. The Irish actor will see the point immediately, but two weeks later will act with exactly the same mistakes as he had before. The English actor takes a long time to comprehend new ideas, but once he gets them he will give a consistently excellent performance. The American actor varies according to school. If trained in the "method school," he has no performance at all until he gets before the audience because one doubts whether he is feeling his part...
...routes to the same destination, can logically support this vague, diffuse type of unity, but Christians cannot. One perennial cause of misunderstanding about the ecumenical movement is that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek,' and then cannot comprehend why we waste so much time 'negotiating' when we ought at once to fall on each other's necks and burst out together into Schiller's Hymn...
...saddening to learn that only 9% of U.S. boatmen are sailboat enthusiasts. Even more so to conclude that the remaining 91% fail to experience or comprehend the beauty and sense of satisfaction a sailor receives when he combines his skill with the forces of nature to make white sails glide...
With the aid of the titles, it is easy to comprehend most of the unfolding mystery of the Genesis theme as Kovarsky has conceived...