Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After these incidents, Malayan Rajah last week was not necessarily unfriendly, but he was vastly puzzled. Said he: "After all, isn't white a color? I am terribly surprised by all this. You people talk democracy, and you must be careful to practice what you preach...
...Catholic Christian clergymen want to convert the pagan, why do they insist on invading countries that have been Catholic for centuries? And if they do enter such countries, why must they preach a vicious, and-Catholic brand of Christianity...
...Young people's habits are more influenced by what their parents practice than by what they preach: if both parents drink, 90% of their sons and 83% of their daughters drink; if both parents abstain, so do 49% of their sons, 81% of their daughters...
...Ardito. "Compromise, moderation, restrained zeal, a constant effort to be 'human' and please the general public, all these mixed in with personal greed and jealousy-isn't that the portrait of the average priest? . . . How many of us priests ... act as if the truth we preach were a spiritual reality, not a mere symbol...
...Preach all the four winds . . . Preach the North Wind of God's righteous judgments-that the way of the transgressor is hard, and the wages of sin is death. Preach the East Wind of God's affliction, that whom He loveth He chasteneth and scourgeth . . . Preach the South Wind of temptation and danger . . . But most of all, preach the West Wind . . . You're never really preaching until you're preaching the West Wind of God's mercy and pity and forgiveness...