Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priests, who seek to exorcise the demons, represent the Polish communists, at once dogmatic and anti-humanistic. In her greatest moment, Mother Joan screams at the priest that she likes her demons; that she will not be made just like thousands of others, who pray to gods all together, who eat their beans every day. This is precisely the plea of Poland, afraid that it is being engulfed by the faceless hordes of the East. Poles frequently identify the mass nature of the Russian Orthodox Church with the mass nature of Soviet communism...
...Protestant. No longer. He had joined the militantly antiwhite Negro sect. "My religion is Islam," he said, "and I am proud of it. Followers of Allah are the sweetest people in the world. They do not carry knives or weapons. Their women wear dresses that touch the ground. We pray five times a day. God is with...
Will the veiled sister pray...
...pray...
...petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others, or not even intrinsically possible." Yet God's silence does not necessarily contradict Jesus' injunction: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11: 24). For, the author maintains, "such promises about prayer with faith refer to a degree or kind of faith which most believers never experience...