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Word: prays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read prayers in the family chapel. One day he read: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God," then paused and snorted: "Oh, that's damned nonsense. Let us pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Letter-Opener | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...while we condemn the sin we understand how great are the temptations to which many are now subject. . . . God will give help to those who pray to Him, and to those who have yielded to temptation He offers pardon if they are truly penitent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Fornication | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...trying to think of some way to get ahold of an advance copy. Theories as to its nature are broached by almost everyone out of their subconscious desires for something suitable to their amount of acquired knowledge. Some of us are thinking of getting Eddie Rickenbacker in to pray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...clergymen, Catholic and Protestant. Many of the speakers were said to be captured German army chaplains. They praised Moscow's National Committee for a Free Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), told how the Russians allow them to practice their religion in the prison camps, urged listeners in Germany to pray for peace, work against the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Russia | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Bishops of Denmark are militant Christians. Early this year Bishop J. J. A. Ammundsen of Lolland-Falster warned his Lutheran flock to be ready for martyrdom. Last week to the U.S. came news of increasing militancy. In Copenhagen Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard thundered: "We shall pray and kindle the spirit. There was never any use for cowardly clergymen, least of all today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ready for Martyrdom | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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