Sentences with phrase «beautiful passage»

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament is that in which Paul sends Onesimus back to Philemon — not emancipated in the legal sense, but «no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother,... both in the flesh and in the Lord» (v. 16).
It is Queensland's only offshore island linked by bridge and is separated from the mainland by Pumicestone Passage, a stunningly beautiful passage of water that is home to more than 350 species of birdlife, dugongs, turtles and dolphins.
One of the most beautiful passages in the Bible is that in which Hosea has God say,
One beautiful passage at the end of the book stays with me and seems particularly relevant perhaps to our current political moment: «So much blood has been spilled that redemption may be out of reach in the end.
C.S. Lewis wrote a really beautiful passage that touches on this subject in The Last Battle of the Narnia series.
3:10; 4:17, R.S.V.) In one of the most poignantly beautiful passages in the Gospels, Jesus, directly after his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, wept over the city because his countrymen were failing to see «the things which belong unto peace,» and gave a terrible warning of impending disasters «because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.»
Kayak beautiful passages of water, enjoying gorgeous scenery along the extraordinary Cartagena coast.
«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»
The horrors of the Civil War are also made immediately felt through the characters» lives in quiet but such graphic prose that it made me feel I was understanding it for the first time as a fellow human being rather than a student of history... One beautiful passage at the end of the book stays with me and seems particularly relevant, perhaps, to our current political moment: «So much blood has been spilled that redemption may be out of reach in the end.
Among its most beautiful passages are those in praise of wisdom in chapters 3, 4, and 8, and its graphic picture of a model wife in 31:1 - 31.
There is a beautiful passage describing that eternal marvel, light on water, in the humble context of droplets slipping down a shower curtain liner.
This beautiful passage reveals to us what happens in our own life when we truly have an encounter with Christ.
In St Augustine's Confessions there is a beautiful passage in which the great African theologian speaks about the death of his beloved friend Alypius.
How do you reconcile those beautiful passages, apparently Jesus» own words (unlike most of the Old and New Testaments» text), with the embrace of war, torture, empire and exclusion that characterizes right - wing so - called «Christian» Republican America in the 20th and 21st Centuries?
There's a beautiful passage in the book of Wisdom that expresses it well: «Death was not God's doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living.
And as I ask my doubt and anxiety to kindly step aside for a few hours so I can get some work done, I will try to keep in mind this beautiful passage from Steve Almond's «One Over Forty» essay at The Rumpus:
At its heart was compassionate conservatism and a beautiful passage about the true causes of crime.
He quotes this beautiful passage --
(His most widely seen work is probably the beautiful passages of footage he contributed to Laura Poitras's Oscar - winning Citizenfour, showing these same locations.)
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