Sentences with phrase «as lepers»

They feel they have been treated as lepers and expunged.

If we go to the Syrians it is possible they might kill us, as lepers and Jews.

Again, this is due in part to his stance as a leper.

An AIDS victim risks being treated as a leper was in biblical times — considered unclean and required to keep a certain distance from others.

They are just afraid to be identified as such because being an atheist in this country in the 21st century is like being treated as a leper during Jesus» time.

He risks ending up as a leper throughout football fans everywhere.

Not exact matches

Gardner is impressed with Obama as a potentially «good chief executive,» he concludes — an office he'd be more likely to win «if people stop dreaming that [he] will change the weather and cure lepers.»

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

The DSM - IV may as well just be called «God's Book of Unclean Lepers,» and it assumes, just like the Bible, that the clinicians are the elite and perfect «normal» ones and that everyone else that looks different than them has the disorder.

To compare, as this article does, embracing someone with neurofibromatosis to earlier work with lepers is misleading.

One day, as He walks through a town, a leper confront Him.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

He fights with every religious leader of his day (they are representives of God), hangs out with some of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the law), healed lepers (also against the law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all of «humanity», etc..

We're called to Live the Kingdom by loving each and every person as much as we love our selves (we demonstrate this by healing the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, feed the poor etc.) Clearly it requires a renewed mind to do the above, because it is through the renewed mind that God has chosen to manifest His Kingdom.

Ten lepers, meeting Jesus as he was entering a village, stood at a distance and cried.

I brought up the idea that had he been a contemporary of Jesus, he probably would have viewed the Messiah as a failure because Jesus went from teaching leaders to having a mass following to being followed by what our society would deem «losers» (prostitutes, tax collectors, demon possessed, lepers, etc.) to having 12 by his side to 11 to 3 to none.

Peter had watched with excitement as Jesus cast out demons, healed the sick, cleansed the lepers, calmed the storm, raised the dead, fed the multitude and walked on water.

We see God choose lepers to discover the miracle just as it is women coming to the tomb with their own material concerns who discover the great miracle.

He'd healed folks elsewhere, but not at home, even, he says, as in the age of Elijah and Elisha, when lots of people starved and lepers abounded but miracles from God came only in Sidon and Syria.

Apart from the social services run by the state in which, after all, Christians have as much a share as every one else, it must be said that the participations of «humanists» in private charitable enterprises for the poor, the sick, neurotics, lepers, etc., is relatively modest.

With a healing ministry, just like the lepers Jesus healed, a lot of them take their healing and go home... back to business as usual.

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

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

Jesus» tilt towards the poor and the marginalized, tax - collectors, prostitutes and lepers, according to Dalit theology, portrays Jesus as God incarnated as a Dalit.

In fact, as we saw a few weeks ago with the leper, He always loves those that are outcast and looked down upon by society.

Saint Marianne Cope, as she will soon be known, may be best remembered for her work with patients suffering from Hansen's disease — or lepers, as they were called at the time.

So Dr. Robert, it seems as though you have found your lepers and sinners with whom you should start breaking bread with.

His focus during this time was on teaching and training them, so this event was just as much for their benefit as it was for the 10 lepers.

Your cancer walks into the room before you do and people who know better still flinch — as they did before lepers, who were made to live outside the community, who had to beg for survival.

As a young man, riding his horse one day outside of Assisi, Francis came upon a leper, a person suffering from one of the many skin diseases common in the early 13th century.

As Jesus moved on from Capernaum, he was approached by a leper, who knelt before him and said, «If you will, you can make me clean.»

Jesus could have been blaspheming, his exorcisms could be collusion with evil forces, and what his opponents, no doubt, regarded as the indiscriminate nature of both the forgiveness (including tax collectors and sinners) and the healings (Samaritan leper) could be an argument against these aspects of his ministry, but for faith both are a manifestation of the kingly activity of God.

Greene's only other truly important novel, A Burnt - Out Case, is set in a leper colony in Africa where the architect Querry (read: query) has fled following the failure of his gift as a designer of churches.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time.

The demonstration they give of its authenticity and validity as well as of their own credibility is that in preaching they at the same time «heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils» (Mart.

It was as if I was a leper.

A touring conference programme titled «The Lepers Amongst Us: Homosexuality and the Life of the Church» is due to go ahead in London today despite condemnation from community groups where the conference has been previously held, and criticism from professional organisations declaring conversion or reparative «therapies», which seek to «cure» gay people, as harmful.

Online dating, long thought of as the province of the social leper, is now so universal that, according to press agency Response Source, 7.8 million people in Britain went online to find their match last year, up a third on 2005.

She might as well be a leper.

He's part of «The Italian Job» in 2003, is the uncredited leper King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (wearing a mask the entire time) for Ridley Scott in «Kingdom of Heaven,» produces and acts in «Down in the Valley» and «The Painted Veil,» and Walter Fane (also known as «The Illusionist») in 2006.

as if they are incapable of having friends or a social life, and are about as welcome in the community as your neighborhood leper.

But that feeling is lost quickly as the only vessels he seems to come across are leper boats, ghost ships, or children on nautical field trips.

It's as if I'm a leper without a colony.

As young medical students, they witnessed deep poverty across the continent, particularly Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela, and their stay at a Peruvian leper colony left a lasting impression on the pair.

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

Once the largest leper colony in the world during the early 1900's, it stands today as a stark reminder of life in the Philippines when leprosy was still an incurable disease, and a testament to how leprosy was eradicated not just in the Philippines but in the entire world.