Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther A. Weigle: "The separation of church and state in this country was intended not to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not to impair but to protect religious faith. ... It does not mean that church and state, being mutually free, may not cooperate with one another. And it does not mean that the state acknowledges no God, or that the state is exempt from the moral law wherewith God sets the bounds of justice for nations as well as for individuals...
...What Patriarch Alexei is doing in Russia is all that he can do at present. . . . He has a very difficult task in attempting to propagate the faith. Despite the conditions he faces, he has finally obtained the Government's permission to open some of the monasteries and some of the churches. . . . The war was the main factor. . . . The Government found that the people didn't want to die for Karl Marx. Of course the people know that the priests can say very little out loud, even within the walls of the Church, but nevertheless the people wanted...
...death three weeks ago, by his own hand, of onetime Ambassador John Gilbert Winant gave a tragic urgency to the message of this book. Winant took his life in despair; yet he left behind this reaffirmation of a faith-the faith that had sustained the people of Great Britain (and the U.S. citizens who tried to aid them) in the months before Pearl Harbor...
Molotov said: "It is a known fact that a sort of new religion has gripped the expansionist circles of the United States. Having no-faith in their internal strength, they put their faith in the secret of the atom bomb, even though it has long since ceased to be a secret...
...days of the Early Church are vague and far-off times for scholars to quibble over. But no era in the church's history was more exciting. The early leaders, with their strange-sounding names-Polycarp, Athenagoras, Asterius of Amasea-were spiritual pioneers whose adventures in the faith built a legacy for all Christians...