Sentences with phrase «ancient writers say»

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

Not exact matches

In new book «The Obstacle Is the Way,» an exploration of ancient Greek Stoicism put into practice by leaders ranging from Marcus Aurelius to Steve Jobs, writer Ryan Holiday says that anyone can take advantage of Coach Saban's process.

-- forgetting that ancient religious writers, unlike scholarly historians, did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we know that what you say is true, in every detail?»

And it also makes a place for a religiously minded «humanism,» such as that found in some words of the ancient Christian writer Tertullian when he said, «When you see your brother, you see your Lord.»

Plato and other ancient writers linked Mount Lykaion specifically to human sacrifices to Zeus — the legends say a sacrificed boy would be cooked with sacrificed animal meat and those who consumed it would become a wolf for 9 years.

In his Pulitzer Prize - winning book The Emperor of All Maladies, a sprawling account of the history of cancer that stretches across millennia to ancient Egypt, physician - writer Siddhartha Mukherjee says, «Every decade has a unique hematological riddle.»

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

I used to know a writer whose book was set in ancient Egypt, and who'd researched authentic names, whose editor said told her that it'd be better if the characters had more familiar names, like Jonathan and Tony.