Sentences with phrase «fatima apparitions»

So before flicking through the above thesis to lay out the business case (and there's plenty there), let's pause to consider: Bezos has become something of a media apparition these days.

Even though you don't believe this happened, you'll have to admit that today, if Jesus Christ appeared to you and said «touch me if you don't believe I exist» - and you touched the apparition - your state of intelligent evolution (for lack of a better way of describing it) would leave you unsatisfied you touched God.

Firelight shudders on the floor, in the darkening window where our reflected faces loom and pass like faces glancing from a bus, watching us briefly; and through these apparitions, the empty trees.

We are never without a spiritualism and though some sense the apparitions of Nothingness as a finality, Nothingness is a Something in itself and connot be discarded by anything.

In the former, God manifests himself in the world, and his mastery over the fearful apparitions never is in doubt.

An alien showing up preaching something that looked like Earth religion would make me sit and notice... or maybe a 900 foot apparition of Jesus over the National Mall.

He is no ghost, no apparition.

The former means being assimilated into the force itself, whereas the latter refers to Jedi masters who have discovered how to live on as ghostly apparitions.

Do apparitions chew and swallow?

The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Atlantic Monthly, 448 pages, $ 25 Few things rankle the modern mind more than religious apparitions.

No wonder the disciples are terrified by the ghostly apparition coming toward them.

According to the records the appearances of Jesus were extraordinarily unlike the apparitions seen by disordered minds.

So, here we are believing whatever story there is in a «holy book» written based on the account of one person that none of us knew, but had an apparition in the middle of the night to get to do something.

Good... so lets say, for example that your neighbor, whom you known for years, knocks on your door a 4 in the morning all excited because an «apparition «he had while laying on his bed.

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of angelic» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

This latter is presumptuousness, but even the first two apparitions are not wholly the same.

On the level of language, however, in the writing itself, connections are made: between Jack's jaundiced skin and the «jaundiced» air in their contaminated home; between the lazy, insolent motion of the apparition and her mother's indolent dawdling in the backyard.

But when she writes about the apparition, her real feelings erupt: bitter anger and contempt, and plaintive misery, over having been abandoned.

I only want to make some remarks on the subject of apparitions and visions in general from the point of view of the

Apparition and ascension stories aside, it is clear in Paul's theorizing that some sort of new bodies will come into being for us after the physical disintegration of our first ones (I Cor.

Yet these great minds seemed remote and unreal» ghostly figures from books or a flickering apparition on the evening news.

What do you think of some people's tendency to see apparition of Jesus (or Mary) in strange places — like a lava lamp, a Cheeto, a piece of toast, or a water stain on a wall?

synonyms: mirage, hallucination, apparition, figment of the imagination, trick of the light

«The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe.

They followed a deeper conversion of life brought about when he learned from a pamphlet picked up randomly from the back of a church about the extraordinary miracle of the sun witnessed by several thousands during the Fatima apparitions of 1917.

He discerns the Spirit moving in the new orders and associations, in Marian apparitions, and in the many charisms seen in the Church today.

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of «pretty wingie thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu - late co-nceptions).

Within a month of the last apparition the Bolshevik revolution took over Russia destroying churches and doing away with all worship of religion.

The last apparition was October 13th where seventy thousand people witnessed a great solar miracle that converted many atheists who were there to witness it.

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of «pretty thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu - late co-nceptions).

That identity is not certain; the apparitions do not teach it, but only the word of the Risen One: «It is I, the same.»

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders / reformers of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of «pretty wingie thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu - late co-nceptions).

And it happened on the anniversary of the first Fatima apparition.

The Feast of the Divine Mercy originates from the apparition of Jesus to St. Faustina.

Her apparitions have only this end in view, and the actual promises and predictions she gives are incidental to her main role of helping her Son bring to fulfilment the destiny planned for the human race when the Father decided to create.

The suddenness of the apparition, the majestic immensity of the heavenly being, struck him so strongly that he could not remain standing.

Our Lady uses very few words in her apparitions; in fact only two stand out - prayer and penance, the only coinage that is able to attract God's grace!

Luther, Calvin, Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley et al, founders of Christian - based religions, also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of «pretty wingy / horn - blowing thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

Fastball pitchers normally tire by the ninth inning, and since my book was the ninth of nine reviewed by Charlotte Allen in» The Holy Feminine» (December 1999), perhaps fastball fatigue explains why she threw those wicked curves at my Roses, Fountains, and Gold: The Virgin Mary in History, Art, and Apparition.

For example, in his lengthy survey of numerous reported Marian apparitions, Mr. Martin never makes it clear, stylistically or otherwise, which ones might be regarded as genuine and which ones the fabrications of crackpots.

What she conveniently ignores is that whereas I devote eight full chapters to such authenticated Marian apparitions as Lourdes and Fatima, I write of the dubious ones» some very dubious, some not so dubious at all» in a single round «up chapter that contains an emphatic caveat.

One of the most important of these was the particular focus she had on the rosary, and in fact, on every one of her six apparitions she specifically asked for the rosary to be said.

People want to see a floating apparition of a man with a white beard and im afraid god is much much much more thant that.

In this, the Centenary year of the Fatima apparitions, which took place between May and October 1917, it is good to remind ourselves of the essential points which the Our Lady spoke of to the young seers, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, and Lucia dos Santos.

Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hal - lucinations of «pretty wingie thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions).

from: «Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hal - lucinations of «pretty wingie thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immaculate conceptions)

Without such bodily restoration, so the narrative in Luke makes clear, only a ghost might return from Sheol — «They were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit» (Luke 24:37)-- and the one satisfactory proof that the apparition was not a ghost but a resurrected man lay in the evidence of «flesh and bones.»

Various Marian apparitions are privately revealed illustrations of the fact that we really will hold onto our bodies, though glorified, in eternal life.

Somewhat cleaner Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great «Babs» et al, founders of Christian - based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in / hallucinations of «pretty wingie thingie» visits and «prophecies» for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu - late co-nceptions).

And that meant exaltation as Messiah — not a mere reanimation of his body; not one more resuscitation of a dead person, doomed to die again, like Lazarus or the youth at Nain; not a ghostly apparition, as evidence, after a fashion (but evidence always to be doubted!)