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Even for many who are not Baha'is, his injunction to humanity to have a "vision that is world-embracing," is recognized as relevant today as when he passed 119 years ago.
Jonathan Gandomi: The Ascension of Baha'u'llah: 29 May 1892 Jonathan Gandomi 2011
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Even for many who are not Baha'is, his injunction to humanity to have a "vision that is world-embracing," is recognized as relevant today as when he passed 119 years ago.
Jonathan Gandomi: The Ascension of Baha'u'llah: 29 May 1892 Jonathan Gandomi 2011
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Even for many who are not Baha'is, his injunction to humanity to have a "vision that is world-embracing," is recognized as relevant today as when he passed 119 years ago.
Jonathan Gandomi: The Ascension of Baha'u'llah: 29 May 1892 Jonathan Gandomi 2011
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Even for many who are not Baha'is, his injunction to humanity to have a "vision that is world-embracing," is recognized as relevant today as when he passed 119 years ago.
Jonathan Gandomi: The Ascension of Baha'u'llah: 29 May 1892 Jonathan Gandomi 2011
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This, too, Biblical literalists demand be taken as absolutely word for word true — that is, there really was (several thousand years ago) a world-embracing deluge overflowing the tops of even the highest mountains, lasting for at least (to quote the Bible, Gen. 7, 24) “a hundred and fifty days.”
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009
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So asks Gerard Baker in the London Times: When President Bush goes into the Texas sunset, and especially if he is replaced by an enlightened, world-embracing Democrat, their one excuse, their sole explanation for all human suffering in the world will disappear too.
The Daily Top Five: March 2, 2007 Matt Johnston 2007
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His development, as seen from his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, and through his journals, shows a somewhat narrow-minded young Trappist who grew into a world-embracing spiritual leader.
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His development, as seen from his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, and through his journals, shows a somewhat narrow-minded young Trappist who grew into a world-embracing spiritual leader.
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* UPDATE: At "Sexless in the City" Anna Broadway has two lovely posts on world-renouncing vs. world-embracing: Sex and death, part I; Sex and death, part II.
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It is my warm & world-embracing Christmas hope that all of us that deserve it may finally be gathered together in a heaven of rest & peace, & the others permitted to retire into the clutches of Satan, or the Emperor of Russia, according to preference — if they have a preference.
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