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“I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.”

Ifs Wanted Spiritual Found Race Behinds Special Pride Intelligent Sorry Ashamed Eagerness I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.”

Men Trying Play Character Bigs Wanted Spiritual Political Social Boys Journey Discovery

Author:Orlando Bloom

“It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.”

Wanted Spiritual Wise Generations Doctrine Contempt Cried Worldly Thorough Jesuit Worldly Things

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.”

Men Way Wells Wanted Spiritual Girl Causes Sides Movement He Man Higher Concern Labor Treated Injury Wages Fellowship Getting High Beside You Labor Movement

Book:All for one

Source: All for one

“Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for taking such a position because it could then be established that dementia-like conditions are not part of the spiritual/theological domain, but undeniably biological in origin and therefore not attributable with moral implications.”

World Reason Wanted Spiritual Political Moral Conditions Position Materials Illness Obvious Medical Mental Illness Components Domain Implications Theological Dementia Alzheimer

Author:Margaret M. Lock

“Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.”

Wanted Spiritual Christ Sin Leader Authority Threat Jew Scary Expected Rulers Rescue Spiritual Leader

Author:Paul Weyrich

“I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.”

People Thinking Helping Kids Age Wanted Spiritual Felt

Author:Jake Epstein

“I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my heart with his spiritual analysis, and help me to become a minister of the gospel, which is what I wanted to be.”

Heart Helping Wanted Spiritual Teach My Heart Profound Theology Ministers Analysis Help Me Biblical Realised

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.”

Wanted Spiritual Young Girl Found Difficult Differences Plans Survival Salvation Sparkling Headstrong Plan Of Salvation

Book:The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith

Source: The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith

“I was kind of feeling a spiritual need all those years. My wife Geraldine and I went to an Episcopalian Church for a while. Oh, it just seemed very political to me that a guy so liberal was talking about opposing the war in Vietnam and I didn't want to hear that when I went to church. I wanted something spiritual.”

Want Needs Years Kind War Feelings Wanted Spiritual Political Guy Church Talking Wife My Wife Vietnam Opposing Episcopalians

Author:Robert Novak