[…] no doubt be the widely held and not entirely well-founded belief that when God desires that the world should have a new Bible, He will direct the proper authorities in the Church to accomplish […]
[…] shirting and a pair of bloomers, slipping out of the blazing summer sunshine into the rustling green world of corn, moving down the row, careful that an outstretched corn leaf did not saw across […]
[…] propounded to the congregation, “do you want someone to guard, to guide and lead you through this world into the Kingdom of God, or not? All that want someone to be a guardian, or […]
[…] teach American literature as a Fulbright (I love the name) professor at “the northernmost university in the world.” I came back to an English Department in trouble, like so many other departments in the […]
[…] of life, and concentration of purpose re moved from the largely mindless, mechanical routines of your everyday world. Cap and gown announced that the wearer had accepted certain rules of living and been tested […]
[…] oars. “About what?” “The rapids. Flipping.” He shrugs. “There’s a lotta things to worry about in this world. Like getting old. I worry a lot about getting old. Hey,” he says, “next year I’ll […]
[…] far as the public could see, as husband and wife,—a holding out of that relationship to the world,—were the evils sought to be eradicated. . . . The appellant insists that cohabitation necessarily includes […]
[…] was one woman, then pregnant with her third child, who expressed decided approval of the speech: “The world has seduced us away from our children,” she said. “We needed this strong reminder to return […]
[…] leave me here; take me with you.” But she went alone and left me to face the world without her—a world from which the focus of meaning had gone. My reason for doing everything […]
[…] are unable to give up our positions of power, our titles, our honors and recognition from the world or the Church. And who can blame us? We believe we have earned it all. We […]