Great Occasions: Readings for the Celebration of Birth, Coming-of-age, Marriage, and Death |
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Page 162
... body's going to heaven or to hell , or to some halfway station in between . Roman Catholics say they believe this , but many of them do not - see the studies of Robert Fulton , Herman Feifel , S. D. Strut , and others — and more of them ...
... body's going to heaven or to hell , or to some halfway station in between . Roman Catholics say they believe this , but many of them do not - see the studies of Robert Fulton , Herman Feifel , S. D. Strut , and others — and more of them ...
Page 326
... body sinks into death , the essence of man is revealed . Man is a knot , a web , a mesh into which relationships are tied . Only these relationships matter . The body is an old crock that nobody will miss . I have never known a man to ...
... body sinks into death , the essence of man is revealed . Man is a knot , a web , a mesh into which relationships are tied . Only these relationships matter . The body is an old crock that nobody will miss . I have never known a man to ...
Page 351
... body nor the days of his breathing ; a man is what he does , and his doing goes on after the body's demise . His was the length of years given by nature to man as his means of being . In those years he began and carried many projects by ...
... body nor the days of his breathing ; a man is what he does , and his doing goes on after the body's demise . His was the length of years given by nature to man as his means of being . In those years he began and carried many projects by ...
Contents
An eye comes out of the wave | 5 |
Give back life for life | 16 |
We take the future from ourselves | 27 |
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