Sentences with phrase «blind beggars»

He had waited long enough for the promises which God had made even to blind beggars.

We are — all of us — blind beggars, with genuine hurts and handicaps.

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.

I see blind beggars crying out for mercy and sight receiving both.

The frequent question Jesus asked of blind beggars and mothers and disciples (And so probably me)(and probably you) is a bit stunning in its simplicity.

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.

For explorations in this regard, see Walter Brueggemann,» «Vine and Fig Tree»: A Case Study,» Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 43, 1981, 188 - 204, and «Theological Education: Healing the Blind Beggar,» Christian Century, 103, 1986, 114 - 16.

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

The people's effort to silence the blind beggar reflects their wish to keep him a beggar — dependent and blind.

The blind beggar names and entreats Jesus.

Four conclusions are drawn from the healing miracle of the blind beggar narrated in Mark 10:46 - 52: 1.

It is only in the presence of Jesus that the blind beggar is able to seize power.

For the story does not simply concern the blind beggar and Jesus.

The action in the story is begun by the blind beggar: «He cried out.»

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?

The key turn in the narrative is when the blind beggar is able to speak of his pain.

He turns out to know more and trust more and ask more than the people expected from a blind beggar.

The key transaction in the healing narrative is the seizure of power by the blind beggar.

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

One of the more upsetting depictions is that of a child being forced to have his eyes seared by heat and acid because he can earn more money as a blind beggar.

Ernst Barlach (1870 - 1938) Powerful expressionist works include Blind Beggar and Russian Beggar - woman with Bowl.

Not exact matches

When one does give, it seems to me important to look into the eye of the beggar — if he or she is not blind — and to see there a fellow human being.

By the middle of the first century, any male might be called upon to read, whether he be a minor, a beggar, or even a blind man!

Without that process, beggars will remain blind and the blind are sure to remain beggars.

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

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.

Perhaps, because he was a beggar, he never had access to nutritious food or to health care, and so became blind.

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.»

«These were the days before CV blind policies, and his dismissal of my university choice was withering — the «Hull, Hell and Halifax» reference is actually from The Beggar's Litany and lists the three things thieves in the 17th century feared most — hell, for obvious reasons, the Hull jail and the Halifax gibbet — a particularly nasty execution tool.