Word: unbeliefs
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...things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." But Christian faith is a paradox which is the sum of paradoxes. Its passion mounts, like a surge of music, insubstantial and sustaining, between two great cries of the spirit-the paradoxic sadness of "Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief," and the paradoxic triumph of Tertullian's "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe because it is impossible...
...must not be supposed that a national unbelief in what the minute .hand says means that Mexicans don't work hard. If the average Mexican finds conversation with one fellow so interesting that he lingers on, and thus misses appointments with two other fellows, he makes up for it later in the day. This is the only place I have been where a public official has given me an appointment to meet him in his office nine o'clock in the evening...
Truman and Byrnes have not abandoned old Cordell Hull's faith that the sure cure for the world's economic ills lies in fewer & fewer trade barriers. But, like religion in an age of unbelief, the doctrine of free trade in an age of insecurity is hard to live by. In religion, the prime problem is the devil; in politics and economics it is, respectively, the world of power and the flesh...
...scores of islands have passed from enemy control to Allied control. It is not only that the battle line has been advanced from the backyard of Honolulu to the frontyard of Tokyo. Even familiar places and bases have changed to an extent that leaves the returning correspondent openmouthed with unbelief. Not only have they grown; their function has changed...
They tried to forget their blistered feet, their racking pains, their sores, their ills. Some knew they were living skeletons of men. Some were still filled with unbelief. They caught sight of an American flag and Staff Sergeant Clinton Goodbla openly wept...