Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Hitler's viewpoint the most dangerous aspect of Christian resistance is the refusal of thousands of churches, both Protestant and Catholic, to pray for a Nazi victory. The Gestapo can silence all open attacks from the pulpit, can imprison all outspoken pastors and forbid bishops to write pastoral letters, but it cannot make them pray for Nazi success. That situation is unparalleled in a nation at war. Even the Schwarze Korps, organ of the Elite Guard, admits it: "The spiritual gentlemen . . . write as though they want to make our soldiers dislike the war. They do not find...
...King, with the Queen's hand in his, led her to the throne, and, sitting on the right hand of the throne, not putting on his crown, he intoned: "My Lords, pray be seated." The simplicity was no mere affectation of wartime. It was symptomatic of the most crucial week Britain has experienced yet, with the Luftwaffe smashing harder than ever at the islands, with the Empire fully and desperately engaged from Nova Scotia to the Nile. Indeed, Britain's plight was so grave that while in the U. S. dozens of agents and agencies worked for more...
...pontiff apparently renounced any hope of a peace settlement in the immediate future, imploring Christians throughout the world to pray for God to intercede and aid the suffering...
Church quarters saw hints in the homily that this will be the Pope's final appeal and that he feels the solution henceforth is in the hands of God while man can only pray...
Rebuking British Author Somerset Maugham for a reference to the "thrilling and original poetry of T. S. Eliot." deep-eyed, soil-revering Author-Poet Carl Sandburg (Abraham Lincoln; The People, Yes) counseled a Manhattan audience: "If you wish to pray or if you wish to sit in silent meditation in a quiet corner and have music of words, you will get it from this poet. But if you want clarity on human issues, he's out - he's zero . . .antidemocratic . . medievalist . . . royalist . . . and so close to Fascist that I'm off him, to use a truck driver...