Sentences with phrase «at keeping his word»

If you need proof that Honor isn't always the best at keeping their word when it comes to software updates, just take a look at their flagship phone — the Honor 8.

Not exact matches

Although they could use wording and imagery that would evoke pain and pull at your heartstrings, they have developed strict policies for allowing children to keep their humanity.

In other words, Weinstein had all sorts of safeguards in place that would work to keep him at the helm of the company.

In your head, you run through all the stuff you have to tackle at the office, but one word keeps interrupting your mental rundown of the day's agenda.

How about Frontier Airlines, which offers these comforting words on its website: «We'll try to keep your party together, but the only way to ensure that you'll sit together is to select seats at time of booking»?

Also, keep the words alongside your product short and sweet, with the most salient points easily understood at one glance.

And the guard when Christ answered them they backlashed at the words of God, yet Judas went ahead as Jesus kept giving Him another chance.

At the root of the question you pose, and beyond any apparent theological dispute, we must keep in mind that we are addressing a problem that casts doubt on the fact that it is necessary for the Church always to remain faithful to the doctrine of Jesus, whose words in this regard are absolutely clear.

So, let's look at the words of Jesus Himself regarding Judas: «While I [Jesus] was with them [the disciples], I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition [Greek = destruction], so that the Scripture would be fulfilled» (John 17:12).

Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.

It helps me (at least) to keep in mind that what ever we say and however about «these things» we are always inadequately indicating beyond our words and images and myths — but also literalizing them, getting stuck inside our ways of talking.

compared to the old there seems to be a whole different god or that god has changed i think i am going to trust studies — at least they state the margin of error, the religious stand by the bible as fact, the word of god... it would seem your god is a moron who can't keep his story straight.

And sometimes it happens that they meet in an abandoned shrine, and place on the altar a stole which they still keep, and recite all the prayers of the Eucharistic liturgy; and then, at the moment that corresponds to the transubstantiation a deep silence comes down upon them, a silence sometimes broken by a sob... so ardently do they desire to hear the words that only the lips of a priest can efficaciously utter.

As the experience grew in me, I found my commitments stronger than ever and, at the same time, I knew that I could not, in the words of womanist ethicist Katie Cannon, «keep on keepin» on.»

He keeps his word even when we fail at keeping ours.

I am ashamed of the bumper stickers, the t - shirts, the logos, the fog machines, the light shows, the celebrities, and that paralyzing fear of Silence we're so bound and determined to avoid that we keep shouting and shouting and shouting at one another till our words are just clanging cymbals echoing off church walls.

OK, I checked out the comic, and then read the headline, and obviously missed the play on words, but then I got it, and kept reading, then I went back to the comic and looked at it again, and thought that the point was ok, but it wasn't really funny... then I looked a little south and laughed out loud.

We need at this point to keep ever before us the words of Paul, «Therefore let any one who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.»

Keeping «to the general sense of the words that were actually used» sounds like at least a rough paraphrase.

Phillips Brooks put it once in unforgettable words: «To keep clear of concealment, to keep clear of the need of concealment, to do nothing which he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noon - day, — I can not say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life.

The anxious sense of loss experienced by Jesus» parents is transferred to the Christian who feels at times that he has lost Jesus, only to be assured that Jesus was never lost, and that through His Word, our Lord always keeps us close to Himself.

«1 Such word choice suggests a dash of reality or a sprinkling of cynicism is all that is required to keep Americans from having a civil religion or at least believing in it.

I try to coin words that don't exist and craft sentences to explain how it feels when I look at the curve of my daughter's cheek while she nurses at my breast or how I learned to pray by doing laundry or how dignity is overrated and how the Holy Spirit feels like a bracing cold wind to me and how you only really learn that when you have nothing left or how I believe in a God who climbs down into the obscurity and calls us beloved but I keep coming up with nothing much.

When they kept mocking his messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, «the wrath of the LORD against his people became so great that there was no remedy» (v. 16).

The king was not to be exalted in self - importance above his subjects; he should be at pains to obey all the words of the Deuteronomic code with its rich social implications; and, further, the book was to be kept at hand as a sort of constitution of the kingdom that would guide and limit the monarch's rule.

It is an echo of Moses» words at the Red Sea: «The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still» (Ex.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

That word live when said by Jesus was more than saying keep breathing it meant this is The Way to live and if the man and we did, we would be as close as we can ever be at one with God.

War of the words won't cut it, just take a look at the history and keep the eyes open.

And since it does all of these things — keeping the enemy at bay, helping us bring light to sinners, showing us how to become more Christlike, the Word of God should be our constant companion.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

(Someone must have told me at some point to always write the word FREE in all - caps because that just keeps happening.)

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

«Apostolic succession was cited in the early Church to distinguish the orthodox from the heterodox — in other words, to keep heretics at bay,» they write.

But perhaps our real affection for that verse is a more complex response to the whole story of Samuel and Eli, maybe even relief at the poignant rendering of our own secret dread: that although the word of the Lord is clear enough in fact, Eli found it painful or difficult to keep listening.

Perhaps Paul's hope is that things will turn out as they do at the end of the book of Genesis, when Joseph presents himself as a blessing for his jealous brothers in the famous words: «You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are this day.»

The Christian knight was to keep his plighted word, be loyal to his lord, fight the infidel, and at his death make his confession and receive the Communion.

Children instinctively do whats wrong as it comes easy to them one of the first words ours picked up apart from mum and dad was no or mine and sibling rivalry got pretty hostile at times.With anything goes from biting scratching kicking we had 3 boys and a girl i thought the boys were much easier to keep in line as long as they had clear boundaries.Your a lucky man your children must have been angels i guess mine took after my side of the family so my wife keeps telling me..

I say to you this... it's only been oh... about 400 or so years since the Pilgrims landed at plymouth rock... but they kept rather decent records... can you go back today and piece together word for word what was meant by everything that was said, written, or illusioned?

I understood the girl and her blushes at the words of her betrothed, yet the undeniable force that kept her dancing with him.

I'm one to keep my word and recently at Story Time, my vow to honor my promises was put to the test — by a three - year old.

But, I kept at it, it never did look like your picture... but I added the strawberries and OH MY WORD.....

Garlic edamame isn't going to keep your guests full though and it doesn't have that crunch that we all come to expect from an appetizer, so I decided to combine a few of the flavors from my traditional trash mix (are you really still laughing at the word trash) with the flavors of garlic and jalapeno to create the most amazing appetizer you will ever have.

3 points is a hollow word which will not keep me warm at night under this tyranny we call the wenger era

Although Phelps did seem frustrated at times, even using the word «TIC» (This is China), he did a good job of keeping his cool.

You want to trade him when demand is at its highest (in other words, when competitive teams panic) but you also need to move him before the foot issue returns, unless you're willing to risk keeping him for the duration of his contract.

The word the british players at Arsenal not including Chambers keep like to say «massive».

Was expecting this article to say something along the lines of Mesut willing to sign another deal or a pay increase or some incentive to keep him on, like Wenger planning some big transfers etc... all this article says is that Mesut chooses his words wisely whilst playing his cards close to his chest... no doubt we all know a player of his talent will be gone end of next season if we don't win the AT LEAST the league.

Keeps this up and thosr Pundits who laughed at him for wanting to win ballondor will eat their words.

Arsene Wenger baffles everyone else except me with his so called wise word and keeps you all wanting for more, hence his longevity at a club which in all honesty should have long sacked him!