Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching the busy calisthenics of the Moslems at prayer, Asad once asked an old Mecca pilgrim the reason for all the physical activity. "How else then should we worship God?" he replied. "Did He not create both soul and body together? And this being so, should not man pray with his body as well as with his soul...
...devout Mormon who often kneels to pray before a major decision, Chairman Watkins added prayer to the rest of the committee's efforts. He prayed, frequently, that the committee would come to a just and unanimous decision. Said he: "I'm a praying man, and I believe my prayer has been answered...
...creation, and is intended to be a necessary part of the environment . . . The first heresy in prayer, as Archbishop Temple used to say, is the attempt to persuade God to change His mind-blasphemy in the attempt and calamity in the result . . . Our Lord . . . specifically ordered us to pray for and to heal the sick. But about the weather He had nothing to say. He simply accepted...
...churches assembled in Manila's Luneta Park to join in a prayer for world peace and for the success of the eight-nation conference on Southeast Asian defense (see FOREIGN NEWS). Right after the Protestants marched out of the park, some 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in to pray for the very same things...
...into the clear, green water and thought- as he later recalled: Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were a statue of Christ down there. Then the dead - all who have lived by the sea and died in it - could have their own secure refuge, a place to pray." Duilio Marcante told some of his friends, and the idea raced through Genoa and far beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World...