“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 142
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 142
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 583.
Richard Rodríguez (1944) American journalist and essayist
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet
The Pardon
Context: I started in to cry and call his name,
Asking forgiveness of his tongueless head.
... I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:
But whether this was false or honest dreaming
I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 612.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
A Stone for a Pillow (1986), as quoted in If Grace Is True : Why God Will Save Every Person (2003) by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland, p. 223
Context: All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) American politician
"The Basis of the Struggle", July 31, 1909, La Follette's Weekly Magazine. Quoted in Matthew Rothschild, Democracy In Print : The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"Industrial Unionism" (1905), Eugene Debs Speaks