Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are indeed as many dangers as there are comforts in true religion. As the churches cannot survive without it, so we need the churches to protect us from its untutored excesses. Happy is he who can find his religion within the ancient wisdom of a church; happy the nation! But our age, if it is to be a religious age, must be also an age of rediscovery. That will take us through much travail before we find our spiritual home...
Hoover testified: 1. That the Communists are directed "from Paris with a very definite pipeline into Moscow" and that they are a present danger to this country in the event of war with a Communist nation. 2. That he has "grave doubts" as to the wisdom of making martyrn out of Communists by outlawing them. Also, he said the law might later be ruled unconstitutional...
...quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering. And the summons is for nothing less than the leadership of the world, for that or nothing. If it is reasonable to expect failure, that is only a measure of how great the triumph could...
...same speech at Princeton, Marshall said: "I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep conviction regarding certain of the basic international issues today who has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the fall of Athens...
...months ago, being a Jew in Berlin was hell-on-earth. Now Berlin Jews are entitled to more food than Gentiles; they also have a better chance of getting coveted visas to the U.S. So a number of German Gentiles, looking at the situation practically, have suddenly seen the wisdom of being converted to the Jewish faith...