Word: visioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That it is impossible for a living person to overcome the force of gravity and ascend beyond the limit of vision, whereas the Bible teaches that Elijah went up alive to Heaven, Christ rose from the dead and did the same and the dead shall rise and go to Heaven on Judgment...
...Lawgiver; on Good Friday, on the Mount of Olives Gethsemane; at Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, on Easter Saturday, The Prince oj Peace; on the Mount of Olives, on Easter, The Great Commission of Christ; in Samaria, Noaman the Leper: at Damascus, Paul's Heavenly Vision; etc., 16 addresses...
...President addressed a few well-chosen words to the President of the National Flag Day Association on the subject of the Stars and Stripes: "It pictures the vision of a people whose eyes were turned to the rising dawn. It represents the hope of a father for his posterity. It was never flaunted for the glory of a royalty, but to be born under it is to be a child of a king and to establish a home under it is to be a founder of a royal house...
Wrong opinions come mainly from lack of sight, from not seeing far enough, or widely enough, or from obstacles in the line of vision, and there fore failing to take into account a part of the factors in the problem. Such near-sightedness, or defective vision, is due partly to our ignorance in large part unavoidable because we know, and can know, only a small portion of the influite compass of eternal truth. If is partly due also to the narrowness of our sympathies' which prevents us from comprehending the sentiments and point of view of others, who are quite...
Above all we can place ourselves on a higher plane of vision by striving to look at things from a loftier standpoint. We can endeavor to rise above our own sentiments, surroundings and purposes until they assume their true proportions in a wider horizon. We can try to think how they would be regarded by a Being infinite in knowledge, in love and in sympathy with all sentient creatures that now are, or hereafter will be, living upon the earth. No doubt we shall still be in error, because we are finite, severely limited in mind and heart...