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...immediately before his trial and crucifixion. He notes that Jesus' first statement is "Let this cup pass from me." Observes Yancey: "He's basically saying, 'Get me out of this!' " Yet he quickly moves into a stage of calm. "By the end of the night, he's the calmest person there. He's told God, 'If this cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done.' " The final stage of the prayer, Yancey maintains, is uttered by Jesus from the cross when he beseeches, "Father forgive them. They know not what they do." Yancey does not expect that...
...that the recurring refrain on the Day of Atonement, when Jews itemize their sins, is that "repentance, prayer and charity can annul" God's harshest judgment. Charity, he notes, can come even from those hit hard by economic blight: "There's a belief that charity from a poor person might be more meaningful than a grand gesture from the wealthy." Imam Ali cites a hadith (a saying of the Muslim prophet) in which Mohammed, in the face of persecution, prays to God, both admitting that his troubles may result from his own mistakes and asking him to "forgive my people...
...ethically against it. [But] the more people who get plastic surgery and have injectables, basically the more who have to. The CDC has not yet used the word epidemic, but it really is like an epidemic in that it goes from one person to the next. You know, in 2007 there were 11.7 million cosmetic procedures done. That's a 457 percent increase since 1997. So if your friends or people around you are having work done and you're not, overnight it's as if you've aged ten years. If you don't do anything...
...doctor so he's always concerned. He considers that a medical procedure; I was making the argument that something done in a mall next to a Cinnabon can't truly be dangerous. But just between the two of us, he thinks of me as a youthful person. I guess that makes me feel more youthful. I hardly ever do complain [about my age] because I think that's one of the things you should not do. But when I let down my guard and say that I do want to do something, he'll say, "But where do you need...
...it’s so tempting to pause—because (at the risk of sounding creepy) what you hear when no one knows you’re listening is often as real as it gets. Why would we bother to introduce ourselves, when the self-censoring person who would answer the door couldn’t be half as human—or interesting—as that disembodied voice...