Word: endeavored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took the form of our outlook, our insight and foresight, our Christian endeavor to get right with God and our neighbor. No wonder we become so nervous and fearful when we look at the world's disorder-like Peter when he looked at the stormy waves in which he was destined shortly to sink...
...means, endeavor to create a center for student activities but I ask reverently, in God's name, don't try to label it a WAR MEMORIAL. The fact that Yale, Dartmouth and maybe other universities are planning to raise millions for Activities Centers should not divert Harvard from the path leading to a truly inspiring project that will be plainly and solely a WAR MEMORIAL. Harry E. Warren...
...They have considerable intuitive insight into the structure of our culture. They know that intellectual endeavor will lead them to little 'recognition' and less salary. They know how vital 'success' is to security in our society...
...together are making a supreme endeavor to save the sanity of this world . . . No one can put the clock back. We shall live for many years in a restless world and may find that the close contacts between the nations serve to emphasize friction rather than to advance the unity of men. A crisis in this sort of world may not be a turning point in the fever chart but a long sustained plateau of tension...
...must forego the emotional satisfaction of letting our sympathies be swept away either by the evils which surround us or the proposals for Utopias which rain upon us from every side. A man must endeavor to be a rational human being without becoming a dehumanized intellectual machine...