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...been forgetting God. ¶ I'm beginning to believe there are only two classes of people : those who believe and those who want to believe. ¶ The new era into which we are entering is what might be called the religious phase of human history. But do not misunderstand: by religious we do not mean that men will turn to God, but rather that the indifference to the absolute which characterized the liberal phase of civilization will be succeeded by a passion for an absolute. From now on the struggle will be not for colonies and national rights...
Rayburn said that if the bill was shelved by parliamentary maneuvers, "I am afraid those who stand with us (U.S. allies abroad) will misunderstand...
...critics argue that he has never had to face the specific hazards of a congressional voting record. This is true, but Eisenhower is no stranger to the hard choice. When asked about federal aid to higher education in 1948, Columbia's Eisenhower said: "So that no one will misunderstand where an old soldier stands on that question-I will have no federal money in higher education as long as there is one single iota of federal control coming with it ... The Federal Government has no right to take tax money out of our pockets and give it back...
Father & son both misunderstand Maria. Neither noble nor vicious, she is simply a handsome, rather slothful woman given to daydreaming, a latter-day Emma Bovary without a husband. And Maria misreads the character of father & son. It never enters her head that so dull a man as the doctor could love her in selfless fashion. She thinks that son Raymond may bring her romance and a fresh start-until he attacks her crudely. She tries, vainly, to commit suicide. Years later, by now a hardened rake, Raymond thinks to himself: "Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion...
...those designated by the law of the church as unworthy of ecclesiastical burial are all public and evident sinners. But the church decrees that each case be studied carefully for the slightest circumstance which can be interpreted in favor of the sinner. To condemn this merciful outlook is to misunderstand the entire gospel of Christ. With the hatred of the Lord Jesus Himself the church hates sin, but with His own compassion she stands, as long as there is the slightest foothold, between the sinner and the terrible consequences of his sin. If this means that she will be called...