Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of force. Thus may the weight of fear and the weight of arms be taken from the burdened shoulders of mankind. This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated. And so the prayer of our people carries far beyond our own frontiers to the wide world of our duty and our destiny...
...Potter quit his factory job, joined an evangelical group called the Workers' Christian Fellowship. Soon, he averaged 12,000 miles and 400 speeches a year. During his travels he met a young Anglican minister called Bruce Reed who was shepherding study and prayer groups of Graham-converted university students...
...keep his sanity? The loyalty of his closest buddies and a mute faith in God, best exemplified for Stewart in the selfless devotion of a priest, Father Bill Cummings, who first said, "There are no atheists in the foxholes," and who died while saying the Lord's Prayer over the dying, his very last words those of Stewart's title-"Give us this...
Before sleeping, all of the flowers in the room were "put to bed." and one blossom was selected to rest on Gabrielle's pillow. And there were prayers. Gabrielle had taught herself the Lord's Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget...
...mother, two officials known as the Ministers of Tea and Butter, and the Panchen Lama, the young god-king proceeded across India, usually mounted on a pony-although once he rode an elephant together with Prime Minister Nehru. He was surrounded by a whirl of waving yellow prayer flags, burning incense and flower petals. Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims prostrated themselves before him. and when they could not reach his gown, they touched the hoofs of his pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like an exchange student at the University...