Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pray thee, tempt no Democrats to join...
...went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican . . . And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other...
...some point, I sought relief from my distress by trying to pray . . . As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward . . . The torrent that swept through me in 1937 and the first months of 1938 swept my spirit clear to discern one truth: 'Man without mysticism is a monster.' I do not mean, of course, that I denied the usefulness of reason and knowledge. What I grasped was that religion begins at the point where reason and knowledge are powerless...
...accurately reflected this policy. To a crowd in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, she said: "There are traitors who in the darkness of night want to poison the soul and body of Perón, which is the soul and body of the country. I pray to God not to let these fools lift their hands against Perón, because, beware, the day they do, I shall march with the women, with the workers and with the shirtless ones, and no brick shall be left standing that is not a Peronista brick...
Three years ago, Sheen offered a prayer before the U.S. Congress which all Americans might take to heart: "Gentlemen . . . you ought to pray to God now as never before . . . You ought to pray that God, the sovereign King of nations, who once used Assyria as the rod and staff of His anger, will not now use Russia as the instrument of His justice for the liquidation of a Western World that has forgotten God . . . You ought to pray that our beloved country . . . may one day fulfill its glorious and certain vocation of being the secondary cause by which God will...