The Measure of a ManChristian Education Press, 1959 - 34 pages Why nonviolence matters Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism. |
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... gone , and yet in the form of a Handel , he will look up and imagine that he hears the very angels singing , and he will come back and scratch across the pages of history a Hallelujah Chorus . This is man . He is God's marvelous ...
... gone , and yet in the form of a Handel , he will look up and imagine that he hears the very angels singing , and he will come back and scratch across the pages of history a Hallelujah Chorus . This is man . He is God's marvelous ...
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... gone . Therefore , man is a sinner in need of God's divine grace . So often we try to deny this fact . We hate to face it . There are times even in our theological thinking when we have become all too sentimental about man . We 10 THE ...
... gone . Therefore , man is a sinner in need of God's divine grace . So often we try to deny this fact . We hate to face it . There are times even in our theological thinking when we have become all too sentimental about man . We 10 THE ...
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... those ideals to which we should be loyal . " All we like sheep have gone astray . " I don't know about you , but when I look at myself hard enough I don't feel like crying with the Pharisee , “ Lord , I 12 THE MEASURE OF A MAN.
... those ideals to which we should be loyal . " All we like sheep have gone astray . " I don't know about you , but when I look at myself hard enough I don't feel like crying with the Pharisee , “ Lord , I 12 THE MEASURE OF A MAN.
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