Sentences with phrase «beggars who»

They're street beggars who have been rounded up by the police because they «make the city unsightly with all their begging».

At King's Times Square presser this week to announce his proposal to regulate the beggars who dress like cartoon characters, one passerby shouted out, «Which character are you?»

Athy, dear, you're just another one of those lame and blind beggars who hasn't seen the light of day, so he thinks that his darkness is all there is... Don't boast yourself of your thinking, you're desperately deficient, because the most important part of you is DEAD.

They are professional beggars who pose as homeless.

An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market.

Slate magazine's Carl Wilson turns his otherwise glowing review nasty when it comes to religion: «Christianity comes to the fore, particularly in the latter tale of a run - in with a homeless beggar who turns out to be God himself.

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.

According to THR, she will be acting as an old beggar who follows Cinderella around before revealing herself.

Not exact matches

The bizarre events that have unfolded in recent days almost beggar belief: John McAfee, the tech entrepreneur who pioneered anti-virus software, has gone into hiding.

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.

It's an enchantment triggered by the Beast's pride, his heartlessness toward the beggar - enchantress who approached him for refuge long ago.

Any time people draw superficial lines to keep others away, they separate themselves from the Messiah who welcomed lepers, kids, beggars, prostitutes and thieves.

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

The beggar, named Lazarus, who received only «evil things» during his life, is taken at his death to Abraham's bosom and comforted.

Is someone in need an idle beggar or a brother or sister who has fallen on hard times?

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?

However, ptwcoV suggested absolute poverty, «one who crouches,» and so a «beggar.»

Westerners are usually advised not to give to beggars, who can be persistent and aggressive.

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.

Just like we don't hang around with women who are caught in the act of adultery, we don't hang around with Samaritans, we don't hang around with powerless children, we don't hang around with women who have a bad reputation, we don't hang around with beggars or the poor or the oppressed or the criminal or the possessed or the socially marginalized or the ones who aren't allowed to come to temple with the good religious people, good gracious!

Mark calls the man who was healed «Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus.»

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.

Just remember this, the next time you visit a holy temple, don't forget to observe those who are outside - nothing changes when you come out, no prayer makes the beggar filthy hungry man become rich in a minute, but You can feed him, at least once, and that to me is real....

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.

We don't know whether he was a cold man with habitually averted eyes who never saw the beggar at all or whether he did notice, maybe said a prayer for a sorry case, but stuck to his policy of never giving anything directly to street people.

Then he spoke of the lately dead Katherine of Aragon: «We poor beggars, the theologians in Wittenberg, are the only exceptions who would like to maintain her in royal honour... Tell my brother that my cough and his silence kept me from answering him!

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

They have an interest in postponing that time, because it would mean sharing power with beggars and being surrounded by more people who speak out and make claims.

He knows it is «Messiah time,» the time when the blind see and the poor have their debts canceled and beggars become citizens again (cf. Luke 7:22 - 23) Who would have thought that a blind beggar would know it was this time?

Those who are kept powerless will not be healed; they will remain beggars.

The buyer signed the contract smugly sure The guarded walls he'd bought would keep away The street - game children, noisy in their play; The beggars, hungry, hideous, and poor; The Bible salesmen coming door to door; Annoying relatives, who'd overstay; Do - gooder activists, with things to say....

God wishes to make beggars into Lords... Look about you at the courts of all the kings and princes, at the cities and the parishes... There you will find lawyers, doctors, counsellors, writers, preachers, who for the most part were poor and who have certainly all attended school, and who by means of the pen have risen to where they are lords.

When Bob Cratchit brings the little crippled boy home from church on Christmas, he says to his wife: «He told me, coming home, that he hoped people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.»

It beggars belief that we are back a year later sweating over who we might be able to con into signing for us

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!

Because it beggars believe that he'd go and hang out with a warlord without asking who he is or doing two minutes of googling.

Signing a 29 year old Auba for 60 mill who will be worth beggar all in 3 years time seems absurd especially when we have just signed 50 m Lacazette and still have Giroud Wellbeck and Perez!!!

I thought recently Arda Turan laughed at a possible move to Arsenal by hinting its a step down for him, i suppose beggars cant be choosers, if your wondering who that comment was for i let you decide

Who've recently shown that they have less money than a beggar on the streets of Baghdad.

Even his moniker «Scouse Cafu»... was made up by a scouser no less... as an insult at his ability... which has morphed into something completely improbable and insane... that it beggars belief anyone who has ever seen the real Cafu... would laugh at the comparison!!!

Government officials are «beggars in uniform» who ask for «small iced water or Fantas» at roadblocks and airport checks.

For example, in the city where I live we recently had news reports about an organized «beggars cartel» who were turning street begging into a de-facto organized multinational commercial enterprise.

«It beggars belief that the mayor who was elected in 2008 on a pledge to keep open every ticket office is now planning to close every single one, with all that means for safety and jobs,» Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, said.

All the street beggars arrested within the period of the ban, who were not from Kano State, were sent back to their respective states of origin.

Tracy Brabin, who succeeded Cox as the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, said on Twitter that Farage's comment «beggars belief» and accused him of sinking to «a new low».

My brother who was suppose to provide succour to the family after getting the job has rather become a beggar, draining from the little the family is managing with in this time of economic recession just to get to work daily.

«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.

but hopefully the apps we've compiled will at least connect you with someone who's up for a nice dinner (or even just a drink — hey, beggars can't be choosers) on Feb. 14.

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