Sentences with phrase «more than the written word»

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In other words, while the substance remains largely the same, the presentation has been given a considerable makeover: the new policy is considerably shorter, written in English rather than legalese, and reformatted (more space and color) for an easier reading experience.

«Elmore Leonard wrote of exclamation marks: «You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.»

In other words, these were the kind of pieces that are far more gratifying to write than read.

Women use I - words more than men in all forms of written and verbal communication.

When I started out in my digital marketing career, it was thanks to connecting with some generous people that had a lot more experience than me that I was able to overcome introversion and reluctance to write and become an international keynote speaker, author and blogger with over 1.4 million words written so far.

In other words, not only will you get more shares from writing articles of more than 1500 words, you'll also have a huge advantage over other bloggers (because you'll be in a small club of bloggers who comprise less than 5 % of all bloggers).

When we wrote this summary guy there was a little bit more for ourselves than really selling it to be quite honest with you because we wanted to basically ensure that every word and every chapter this book is something that we fully understood.

I leave it to one of the greatest minds of all time who wrote... Quote: «The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.»

Bibliolatry — treating the written word (graphos) as somehow more important than the living Word (logos)-- is idolaword (graphos) as somehow more important than the living Word (logos)-- is idolaWord (logos)-- is idolatry.

You however don't see your own hypocrisy in greater depth when you say that the bible was deliberately written to be sacred and holy, without ANY sourcing and you take the word of people who lived a really long time ago who also can not provide you with anything more than «eye - witness accounts» which have undoubtedly been changed, tweaked or even just falsly made up in order to cement their point.

Other than its age, what makes, say, Paul's letter to Timothy (which, by the way, was not written by Paul) more «the word of God» and more inspired by God than the writings of Muhammad, the Buddha, or Billy Graham?

The story of JC was told by word of mouth for more than 40 years before it was ever written down.

«The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends,» Einstein wrote in German in a 1954 letter that will be auctioned on eBay later this month.

The plea is to «break free» from a fundamentalist interpretation of the bible, which is a moralistic, ahistorical hermeneutic that bows to the authority of the «written word» (bibliolatry) more faithfully than to the Christ Jesus, the Living Word of word» (bibliolatry) more faithfully than to the Christ Jesus, the Living Word of Word of God.

With the rise of Persian power, the Persian language gained a firm footing in Sind along with Arabic, with the result that modern Sindhi, written in Arabic script, contains more than fifty per cent Arabic and Persian words.

The visual journey is able to achieve that more perhaps than the written word in this regard because of its ability to cover such a lot of ground in a short space of time.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

and I know more than one full professor of English who tell me they are retiring because they have class after class who can not write academic papers... IN OTHER WORDS..

Nothing Paul wrote shows his great gifts as a pastor more clearly than these letters, and his words on spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12 and 13 and his ode to immortality in I Corinthians 15 are among the finest things in all literature.

This book the Holy Bible which is much more than a book, but is in fact the Spoken & Written Word of God, God Breathed & Inspired given not «by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

You are giving much more of a bad influence, showing poor manners (and ability to write out words) than anything the Pope has ever said or done!

In words that are even more true today than when they were written 88 years ago, the editor declared that «it is not primarily members of the visible Church that are to be sought, but true disciples of CHRIST and servants of the most high God.»

No doubt it is true, if we judge by the written word, that we can not claim to be more intelligent than our fathers.

The part of that story that is this story in a messy house at midnight with a loud clock ticking on the wall is what the Greek philosophy books said on that guy's shelf: That more than half a century before the Gospel of John was ever written, more than 500 years before God pulled on flesh and stretched out on straw, Heraclitus was the first Greek philosopher who used that word: Logos.

He writes that the «sensuous aspects of his faith — the familiar fundamentalist hymns, the voices of small - town preachers crackling through his AM radio, the «thunderous, rhythmic word pounding the Spirit of God» — bound him, far more than dogma did, «like a slip knot, loosely but decisively to my religious place.»

I've seen creativity in more than just fibre arts and the written word: I've met creative coders, out of the box business builders, imaginative project managers, doctors with ingenuity, resourceful teachers, pastors with vision for creative community.

Some people feel as though there is more to the universe than a random scientific reaction, but do not agree with the idea of taking rules and ideas that were written down by MEN thousands of years ago as the word of GOD.

His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.

The key word is «vanity,» occurring more frequently in this one writing than in all other Old Testament writings combined.

As a result, the written word was more authoritative than the spoken.

When Jesus, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, etc. wrote about «gospel» they had a LOT more in mind than words about Jesus formulated as statements.

In other words, Thomas, though perhaps written in final form about mid-second century or shortly thereafter, may preserve an independent tradition of sayings more reliable in some cases than those found in Matthew, Mark and Luke.

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

A commentator far more lucid than I am put it this way: «Outside the door to heaven are the words: «Come all ye who are heavy laden,» once you pass through, on the inside of the door is written: «Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.»

April 16, 2012 at 10:59 am YeahRight wrote, «Nah, we have more intellect than you have and don't need to make up bogus words so that our ego can feel justified in its own stupidity.

I made sure of that, so that you would never trust a written word more than your own living Heart.

«A kind word, a warm smile, and a hearty handshake,» wrote one spokesman in a national Protestant magazine, «is more effective for church strategy in race relations than all of its social and political action programs.»

The Stoic sage Seneca counseled that «the living word and life in common will benefit you more than written discourse,» and his contemporaries indeed tended to think together and to think out loud.

«It is not that I think these words are wrong,» her writes, «but I know there is far more to reading the Bible than submitting to authority.»

If, in writing, we become sub-creators (in Tolkien's words) or craftsmen mirroring the Creator (in the words of John Paul II) then surely we ought to take children's creative writing more seriously than we usually do.

The word written can be interpreted in more than one way.

and Romans — well Romans is automatically disqualified for me because it was written by that self - proclaimed «apostle» Paul (the politician — whose words are the most dangerous and untrustworthy of the NT — we have no reason to believe his words any more than those of Joseph Smith).

If you study all the flaws in scripture, the theological inconsistencies which are everywhere, the obvious different writing styles and favorite words, phrases and themes of the various writers, the typo errors (like 1Corinthians 14:22), the differences in reporting (wqs there really one Gadarene demoniac or two), and hundreds of other problems, you start to understand why there are more than twenty thousand denominations in the state of California alone, all of them claiming the truth.

Nor do I rest content in the mere spotting of an historical error in Popper, for Sir Karl's (as, indeed, Whitehead's) place in history is secure on grounds far more weighty than a reputation for faithful reiteration of the words written by one's predecessors (important as such accuracy may be).

Perhaps in more fundamentalist congregations where so much emphasis is given to the written word and what the preacher makes of it, it make weaken his hold on the largely ignorant, but in the Catholic and Episcopaelian congregations, it is much more about pomp and ceremony — where the scriptural readings take on much more of a musical resonance than a study group — it will have little impact.

However, if you are speaking or writing about more than one species (different types of squash) then you use the word «squashes.»

The company relies on Facebook and Twitter to get the word out, but more often than not customers are the ones writing the posts.

Rob Neyer began his career with legendary baseball author Bill James, and later worked for STATS, Inc. and ESPN.com, writing more words for that website than anyone else.

Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am calling all Arsenal fans to change tact while criticizing our coveted club, manager and players by substituting «satanic words» of «F» and «S» characters into words that can add value into the club's vein and steel, write more articles that can encourage Arsenal players rather than kill their morale, unite and dissolve abuses coming from rival club fans and club enemies like Jose Mourinho.

Care to explain, in more than two paltry words that say nothing, what I wrote that you disgree with with and why.