Sentences with phrase «plowshares in»

Representation of Swords to Plowshares in a matter threatening the operation of one of its largest supported housing programs.

Not exact matches

In fact, they would have» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears» and as a result, «they will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.»

Only the one true religion has succeeded in becoming peacemakers, having» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears».

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

A thousand generations since Cain clubbed his brother in some field, and a million cries for peace, for plowshares, say, and what's to show?

With my father's Army ballpeen hammer I'd found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the swordblade, trying to turn it back into a plowshare like the ones the prophets sang of.

For yours is the kingdom in which all nations will one day be healed, all swords melted into plowshares and all tears wiped away for good.

In this kingdom, the humble are exalted, peacemakers rule, swords are beaten into plowshares, and the meek inherit the earth.

And yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more death.

There is a hint in Zechariah 9 that the peace may be shared with other nations, but the swords into plowshares vision is clearly a vision of worldwide peace, of the abolition of war.

It is depressing that humankind has not yet learned to beat swords into plowshares, but while the world remains in this fallen condition, it is just as well that our soldiers are not taught to love those against whom they must fight.

Our differences can become the tools that serve the unity in all, not be the swords that refuse to be beaten into plowshares.

This idea, enshrined in our Constitution, was inspired by the Judeo - Christian vision of an impartial tribunal that would allow states to «beat their swords into plowshares,» as Isaiah pictured it.

Isaiah envisioned Israel's mission as entailing in part the mediation of conflict among nations under impartial international law; a world court in Zion, judging by truth and justice under due process, would enable warring factions to «beat their swords into plowshares» that is, to give up conflict and concentrate on economic development.

In the prophetic promises of shalom there was usually the element of the reversal of the present situation: plenty instead of want, healing instead of disease, security instead of constant danger, return to the land instead of being scattered over the earth, plowshares instead of swords.

foresaw the consummation of such an ethic in a warless world — «They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning - hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.»

Where are all the Christians with their swords into plowshares????? We know Bush II the hypocrite and his war of choice in Iraq left us with 2 trillion dollar debt.

Satan will be in the bottomless pit; swords will be made into plowshares; war, poverty, pain, sickness will be no more.

Two - page sections offer short introductions on «Farming» (planting in rows, wheelbarrow, iron plowshare), «Weapons and Warfare» (gunpowder, stirrups, crossbow), or «Everyday Innovations» (kite, umbrella, fishing reel), followed by illustrated paragraphs exploring individual technologies.

Mr Goode is wearing many hats, as he is also known for his battles to save the plowshare, an endangered tortoise (read Slow and Steady in The New Yorker).

In fact, half of this nuclear material is down - blended uranium from the former Soviet Union — «truly turning swords into plowshares,» Rosner says.