... good and that God was interested in him. Philosophically he believed in God in the same way he believed in the ozone layer. God was a fact, but not a Friend. Then one day as an old man Mortimer Adler lay sick in a hospital bed. A friend came to pray for him, and while his friend was praying, Adler found tears streaming down his face, and he found himself praying. He knew only one prayer the Lord’s Prayer. He found himself praying it day after day and believing the words of that prayer. He said the leap ...
... had been published on the subject in this century. The book he wrote, Angels: God's Secret Agents (Word, 1975), headed the bestseller list for months and has remained Graham's most popular volume. Several books on the subject followed during the '80s, notably Mortimer Adler's The Angels and Us (Macmillan) and Geddes MacGregor's Angels: Ministers of Grace (Paragon House)....during the past five years the number of angel books in print in the U.S. has gone from five to at least 200, according to Gannett News ...
Mortimer Adler, former University of Chicago professor, said that if he entered the classroom and said, "Good morning," and the students responded, "Good morning," he knew they were undergraduates. But if they took out their notebooks and wrote down his greeting, he knew they were graduate students.
... Company, Inc., 1961 (copyright Doubleday and Company, Inc.). 10. Jean Anouilh. Becket, p. 84. New York: Signet Books, 1960. 11. Leo Tolstoy. War And Peace, Great Books edition, Vol. 51, p. 271. 12. Richard Sheridan, "The School For Scandal," in Gateway To The Great Books, edited by Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Clifton Fadiman, Vol. 4, p. 134. Chicago, London, Toronto, Geneva, Sydney, Tokyo: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1963.
5. Reading A Love Letter
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Michael P. Green
Mortimer J. Adler, in How to Read a Book, has observed that the one time people read for all they are worth is when they are in love and are reading a love letter. They read every word three ways. They read between the lines and in the margins. They read the whole ...
