Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother's tender care for him, her teachings and desires that he should be good for humanity and himself . . . What is there left to say but to quote the Bible: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" MRS. W. A. EDLUND Denver...
...made life easy for me. On the contrary. It would have been more comfortable to be without Him than to live with Him. He puts burdens on the soul, which one would rather let pass by unheeded. He exacts a great deal with His demands. And when one thinks that the cross is not so dread, which His children take upon themselves, then comes the moment when it grows very dread indeed...
...century, an unknown Christian wrote to his friend, Diognetus: 'What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world . . . Christians hold the world together . . .' It may be that history's most important verdict upon these troubled times . . . will be: 'Christianity held the world together...
...Which now claims to be second only to Doubleday as biggest U.S. book publisher. It specializes in technical books but also puts out fiction, biography and nonfiction, including such bestsellers as A Man Called Peter, Peace of Soul, Boswell's London Journal, and A Lion in the Streets...
...Soul or Something." A man little given to speeches, Prokofiev once offhandedly said that his Fifth Symphony was "about the spirit of man-his soul or something like that." But his music spoke for itself: there is hardly an orchestra in the West that has not played some of his seven symphonies or his eight concertos; his piano pieces are standards on recital programs, and his musical playlet, Peter and the Wolf, is a happy classic with U.S. children...