Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith and Flair. Combined with the deep faith that grew in the Middle Ages, the flair of the Renaissance for zestful living produced men whose deaths were proud as well as pious. Mounting the scaffold, Sir Thomas More joked: "I pray thee, Mr. Lieutenant, see me safe up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself...
Teach me how to pray...
...clenched fist. The clenched fist that stands for hatred, and for violence and for destruction. . . . And the other ... the symbol of the folded hands. They cannot strike, for they were not made for offense; they cannot protect, for they were not made for defense; they can only supplicate, only pray . . . ten Gothic spires aspiring heavenward for the souls...
...piety on his sleeve, and even in an age of publicity, an archbishop's devotional life is largely a personal matter between him and his God. His rule has been the Biblical injunction: ". . . When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and -when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret... ." (Matthew...
...ever heard Brother Birdwell pray so loudly. He prayed in the name of all the sinners in the Old Testament-in the name of Adam, of Moses, of David, of Solomon, of Abraham, of Jephthah. When Mattie struck up The Old Musician for the fifth time, Jess swept into the New Testament. When Mattie pulled out the fortissimo stop, Jess's resonant pleading fairly shook the studding. "Friend," said Amos Pease, when at last the agony was over, "thee's been an instrument of the Lord this night. . . . Thy prayer carried us so near to heaven...