Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father, we thank Thee for the night And for the pleasant morning light, For rest and food and loving care, And all that makes the world so fair...
...beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast. The two rescued women, their babies in their arms, crawled out, red-faced and shaking, shouting "Arigato, arigato!" (Thank you, thank you!). Almost immediately the fire jumped across the street and caught the building from which they had just been rescued...
...Saying one's prayers," she holds, is a term to be avoided; prayers too easily lapse into a quick bedtime formality like brushing the teeth. Parents should rather encourage spontaneous prayer. She cites one she once heard: "Oh thank you, God, for our muddy garden and my Sister Baby and the lovely spiders. I want to be a Good Big Girl. Amen...
...suggest, I am not quite sure it would not be somewhat uncomfortable." * The real Oxford Movement took place in the mid-19th century under the leadership of John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman, John Keble and Edward Pusey. * Said Dr. Buchman, in a New York World-Telegram interview: I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler who built a front line of defense against the Anti-Christ of Communism . . . Think what it would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God . . . Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last bewildering problem...
...Bernard Shaw is the only one not represented: "No more anthologies for me, thank you," he wrote to Editor McClintock. "People who want to read my works must buy my own editions...