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...confided to a friend the evening before his trip, if he could cap it with another victory? Before leaving his house for the airport, he took a few moments for his daily Bible study, reading from John 3:8, in which Jesus reminds Nicodemus, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On Autopilot | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...York is a kind of global city, a kind of momentary focus of global art which exists everywhere. There are historical analogies to show that there have been places where everything was working and suddenly all the life went out of it. 'The wind bloweth where it listeth.' We can't make predictions about inner qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Goodbye Paris, Hello New York | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...winnow the nonessential chaff (mostly theology) from the wheat of their tradition, must abandon the "chosen people" claim to the uniqueness of their Saviour and their revelation. They must learn to regard all the higher religions as revelations of God. "The spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure ourselves of our family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Professor's Ark | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

After long and careful experimenting with dry ice and other artificial stimulants, the rainmakers are giving up. Hereafter, the Air Force announced this week, the rain will fall where & when it listeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather or Not | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...haphazard. The old and the young, the halt and the well, the first and the last were seated more or less at random by a large corps of Junior Ushers, even as the wind, blowing where it listeth, soweth the weeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPACE FOR SPECTATORS | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

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