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...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
...languishing Divinity School one day last fall as the first president since Eliot to deliver a major address there. He severely criticized the old idea that society can be a substitute for God, that knowledge and good works are enough, that anything can be solved "by escaping into a formless empyrean of good will . . ." Said he: "This faith will no longer do ... Events of the 20th century have made its easy optimism unpalatable . . . It is leadership in religious knowledge, and even more, in religious experience ... of which we now have a most gaping need...
There were about a dozen girls of various sixes and shapes milling around the elevator in the Sheraton-Plaza. They all looked as if they were poured from the same mold at the same time about sixteen years ago--and they all wore variations on a formless fur-collared coat...
...opportunity to observe his hero, Franklin Roosevelt, at work and at play, and the diary faithfully reports his intimate relationship with the President. But the Ickes of the caustic quotes and belligerent campaign speeches emerges only occasionally; like most diarists, the author was simply writing a detailed and essentially formless account of his daily life, and many of The First Thousand Days will be as full of drudgery for the reader as they were for the author...
...wisdom' of President Eliot" who had in 1909 called for a rational faith without metaphysical rites. Pusey's statement Wednesday had been that "He (Eliot) was wrong . . . in urging his generation to get rid of what he called 'paganized Christianity' by eschewing metaphysics and by escaping into a formless empyrean of good will." Pusey recommended instead a firm grasp and fresh understanding of what he called "first things...