Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute...
...after the difficult postwar period, a very different attitude must be taken. In some of these proposals there appears to be a cynical intention that the four great Allied powers shall continue for all time to dominate the world by force and through . . . spheres of influence. I hope and pray that no such reactionary purpose will be allowed to dominate the conferences. As Americans we believe with all our hearts in the equality and rights of small nations and minorities. In the kind of permanent world organization we seek, all nations, great and small, must be assured of their full...
...Class (Methodist). Three thousand people (normal attendance: 700 to 800) heard him declare: "We think a lot today about when our boys are coming back, but are we ready to receive them? Are they going to find the spiritual values that will be needed in the postwar world? We pray for our boys, but perhaps it would be better for us to pray for ourselves that we might have the courage to keep America the kind of a place to which they will wish to return...
...When . . . Governor Winthrop in 1629 came to Massachusetts to 'find a place for our sitting down,' he wrote to his English sponsor saying, 'Send me, pray, a Frenchman that he may lay out our city for me.' Jefferson, two centuries later, followed his example by inviting Major l'Enfant to design the city of Washington. . . . "These and many other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach...
...longer a decent war, it is wholesale murder and butchering of men, a disgrace to the 20th Century. And what for? . . . Pray a little for me. I need it badly. Love always...