Risen

The work of the

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The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God….the capacitating of persons to ‘see visions’ and ‘dream dreams’. …. The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. ….. The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when ‘the blind see’ makes its impact on … Read more

During the fiscal year

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During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. … Read more

The Christian is the

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The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it – a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; … Read more

If you go to

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If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses – you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen … Read more

Hungarian Language — savage

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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide. Emile M. Cioran