Sentences with phrase «as beggars»

Similarly, the attention which began to be paid to the more desperate inhabitants of society such as beggars, young homeless boys and flower sellers during the 17th century also had no political subtext.

Back in the olden days - a couple of years ago - an author was forced into a system where the people who created the work had to act as beggars, supplicants crawling in mass numbers to bow before the altars of literary agents.

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

I see your type as beggars wanting to convert.

A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.

But there are blind people who do not end up as beggars.

No, we all came in, as beggars, asking for something we did not earn, getting something we did not deserve.

This is why in the 1930s these policies were referred to as beggar - thy - neighbor policies.

I thought that Christ turned everything upside down, a shepherd leads from behind, a king who lives as a beggar, a leader serves and is not served, and the meek ruling the earth, not the strong.

Maybe should have cast a Romney lookalike as a beggar.

The church that was conceived and born out of this trade persists with it as a beggar, consumer and client of western Christianity.

You come as a beggar, a leper, a nobody.

I wonder about the relation between his blindness and his status as a beggar.

There is a New York of education, where the spirit is not altogether dead that made Pestalozzi live «as a beggar among beggars — that beggars might live like men.»

Aumonière (also known as beggar's purse) is the name of an appetizer made of a filled crêpe bound in such a way that it resembles a drawstring purse.

The restaurant also holds evening events such as The Beggar Girls, a night of Balkan revelry with «songs of love, dreams and squeezeboxes» to keep you and your date entertained.

But they escape and make their way to Basra, where Ahmad, now living as a beggar, meets and falls in love with the Princess (June Duprez), who has been betrothed by her father the Sultan (Miles Malleson, who also wrote the screenplay) to Jaffar.

Especially when Belle, who is a book worm, tries to teach a small girl to read and when Luke Evans (Gaston) puts up a marriage proposal to Belle saying that all those who end up lonely become as good as a beggar on the street.

The twentieth - century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Not exact matches

Lutheranism engages us in our doubled condition and reminds us of its founder's central insight, confessed as he died, that we are all beggars before God.

A few mornings ago I opened my Bible to the story of the blind beggar in Luke 18:35 - 42, as part of my study through the gospels.

The King shall render account as an individual; and the most wretched beggar, as an individual.

They are professional beggars who pose as homeless.

Wrath of Zeus, the Christian bible clearly states that only the rich will get to heaven... Jesus totally hated the poor... if I remember correctly, he used to call them lazy bums and would regularly spit on the beggars as he drove past them on the streets of Jerusalem while driving in his Rolls Royce... it's all in the bible.

This option, offensive not only to us but already to Matthew, motivated him both to insert «Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven» and also, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes pronounced on the poor and hungry), to add that God's blessing has to do with the «poor in spirit,» who «hunger and thirst after righteousness,» not simply with hungry beggars, which is what the Greek word translated «poor» actually means.

Muhammad said to Uthman ibn Maz» un who was ascetic by nature and who asked permission to make himself a eunuch and to spend the rest of his life as a wandering beggar, «Hast thou not in me a fair example?

D. T. Niles's dictum that «evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find food» is quoted in the documents almost as often as the Great Commission itself!

He has been kicked out of facilities, relapsed several times and spent a weekend as a homeless beggar.

There one can see a touching picture of all human miseries, not of those poor attrackted by the alms of sovereigns, or of those insects who attach themselves to the reach, but of starving beggars deprived of necessities by the «charity» of their bishops so as to prevent them from becoming corrupted by affluence.

Similarly, while the mainstream Enlightenment (which privileged order, good behaviour and obedience) frequently sought harsh remedies for beggars, runaway slaves and other undesirables, Catholic religious houses could provide beacons of mercy and refuge, and moralists such as St Alphonsus Ligori sought to develop a theology which did real justice to the complexities of human life.

Assisting a beggar at the door of the Nunciature (even if it was Corporal Hitler) is hardly tantamount to bankrolling a political activist and in any case the post First World War charitable activities of Archbishop Pacelli in Berlin and throughout Germany were the precursor to the establishment of what would eventually become the Institute of Religious Works (aka «Vatican Bank») under the direct supervision of the nun who ran Pacelli's household before and after his election as pope.

The American Resistance is as exquisitely multiracial as a television commercial, although it beggars the imagination (and distorts Dick's) to think that American blacks and whites would have been on good enough terms to form such a resistance in an America subservient to the Nazi and Japanese avatars of racial division and hierarchy.

Their life would be morally discrete from the life of other men, and there is no saying, in the absence of positive experience of an authentic kind — for there are few active examples in our scriptures, and the Buddhistic examples are legendary, --(As where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with himAs where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with himas a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar — having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with him.)

The saint loves his enemies, and treats loathsome beggars as his brothers.

When considering other stories told in the Gospel it's safe to assume those who were beggars were often outcasts, just as they are treated today.

the soul is eternal as you supposed to understand the book of Luke in chapter 16 when both the beggar & the rich man died.

We should first notice that the man is described as «a blind beggar.»

hinduism, cheap talk of hindu, beggars from hindered beggar land india, spewing their hinduism, absurdities to hide hinduism, illegality, foundation of hinduism, racism, hindu's ignorant live by following hinduism, incest as their faith.

As late as in 1531, Luther said of the parsons: «They are now poorer than before [i.e., in Roman Catholicism], and if they have wife and children they are beggars indeed.&raquAs late as in 1531, Luther said of the parsons: «They are now poorer than before [i.e., in Roman Catholicism], and if they have wife and children they are beggars indeed.&raquas in 1531, Luther said of the parsons: «They are now poorer than before [i.e., in Roman Catholicism], and if they have wife and children they are beggars indeed.»

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

One bishop reported that he had to entertain three hundred guests on a single day, not to mention sixty or eighty beggars.34 Then, too, there were scholars whose educational expenses could be defrayed only through a church living, and when the average vicarage comprised, as in England, four thousand acres, 35 why should it not support more than the vicar?

Although some churches, such as the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, use a missionary strategy of giving material aid to beggars and street people, most Pentecostal churches take only the Bible to their missionary work.

This works with many kinds of berries and stone fruit too, as long as you peel them if their small (like plums, cherries were a bust due to the skins and I'm NOT peeling the little beggars).

It beggars belief a succession of Australian governments have let us down in this way, as does the revelation Meat and Livestock Australia has been fleecing producers for years, raking in enormous fees off the back of the lie it was looking after the interests of the Australian live animal export industry and the beasts it deals with, only to be busted as an irresponsible, incompetent, dishonest and uncaring bunch of cowboys.

as long as its not wasted on cavarni... the number of times i heard his name on this site just beggars football belief... a mediocre over-priced has been

Take your pick as to who is the most pernicious influence on the club out of the above but it beggars belief that on top of paying a manager 8m a year you need to remind him that coming 4th is not acceptable!

as for the idiot Ramsey lovers on this site am sick of em... their understanding of football beggars belief... Mind frizzled by 4th place junkiedom... They are a disgrace to real fans if this club

His persistence with sonogo as a first team option beggars football belief... And the lemming like reaction on this site after his goals against benfica was comical....

I wish our team could win all the trophies but as they say if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

It beggars belief that Arsenal will reject the prospect of possibly making # 150m in sale proceeds for selling the above - named trio this summer, and simply lose all that money next summer, as they walk away on «frees».