Sentences with phrase «god as a rope»

He makes it clear that wealth has the same chance of entering the kingdom of God as a rope has of threading a needle (Luke 18:18 - 23).

Not exact matches

Just so you know, your writing skills convince me that you are too intelligent to continue to be roped in by such a stupid god belief as you now hold.

Nearby stands a more famous landmark, a smaller outcropping known as the Rope of God.

He climbs to dizzying heights without a rope or protective equipment of any kind, shuffles across narrow sills of stone such as the «Thank God» ledge high atop the sheer granite face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

Elsewhere, Cate Blanchett is roped in for stock cackling evildoer duties as god of death, Hela, while Jeff Goldblum plays himself as a dystopian dictator called the Grandmaster.

I could hear them like voices in my own head — why has this boy stopped talking, queer as a winged snake is he, leant against the wall with such a look on his face, would be handsome if he weren't so sullen, what a chest he has, deep as a wrestler's, how does it spring from those twisted haunches to which are pawled legs like hanks of rope, oh god, his ribcage is heaving as if at any moment he may vomit, maybe he is ill, boy what is your problem, alas, my wordless enquiries cause his convulsions to grow worse, I think he may be going to have a fit, what will I do if he dies, oh dear, my further anxious attempts to communicate, with twisting «wherefore» hand motions and raising of eyebrows, seem to cause violent shudders, bugger's lips are writhing in some kind of agony, should a doctor be called, where can one find a doctor in this place, where the hell am I anyway, what the fuck am I doing here?

Gallery walls are covered with his linear baroque flourishes, line drawings rendered in black rope and beads depicting the march of history as a fantastical Carnival procession with mythic gods, beasts and bizarre creatures brandishing assault rifles.

also there was custom, that in case execution was not successfull (like rope for hanging did broke, guilotine stucked or so), the victim would be freed «as it was sign from god».