Word: pray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preaching the kingdom of heaven among the dispossessed of the earth. Their credentials are ancient, for they claim to be emulating Christ and his Disciples. They often build their lives on the Book of Acts, living in common like the early Christians. They abjure drugs, proscribe sex outside marriage, pray and preach incessantly among drifters, addicts and homosexuals and even, occasionally, in conventional churches and schools. They evoke images of St. Francis of Assisi and his ragged band of followers, or of the early Salvation Army, breaking away from the staid life of congregations to find their fellow...
...coach track after a year or two of graduate study. She says that she would like to impart the "religious feeling" of running. "I have reached the point," she says, "where if I lose a race, I figure God doesn't want me to win. So I pray to him, saying 'God, whatever I've done, please forgive me.' If I should win, well, I guess he wanted me to win." Considering her record, somebody up there obviously likes Chi Cheng...
...orientation until he was 23. By then he was married, the father of two sons and pastor of the Church of God of Prophecy in Santa Ana, Calif. When he finally faced his problem, the district elder to whom he spoke pronounced him demon-possessed and advised him to pray. "I told him I'd prayed till I was blue in the face, but it didn't do any good," says Perry...
...world of violence, deceit and coercive evil- to experience which, most regrettably, you have not bad to wait to go outside- wishing in my turn to be helpful I would first pray for you clarity of vision. Then in a period as troubled and uncertain as any in our history, echoing my predecessors' words. I would say something quite similar to what has been said here so many times in the past, urging you not, from a feeling of helplessness, either to surrender to rage or to succumb to self-pity, but rather to go forth and be strong. Beyond...
Commencement at Harvard traditionally begins with the cry. "Sheriff, pray give us order"-but this year there may be no order...