So stop asking whether or not anyone wants it or needs it, and simply do it because you were made to do it, because it makes you fully alive to do it, because you are working out what God has already worked in, because it matters, because you are called to the ministry of reconciliation, because the seeds might just catch and someday, perhaps, you'll sit by the banks of river under the spreading
branches of a tree of righteousness.
Sounds like you only base your criticism on one religious / philosophical
branch of the tree of knowledge.
As a few researchers had been arguing ever since microbial evolutionist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois first suggested it in the 1970s, archaea may look like bacteria, but they actually belong on a third
branch of the tree of life.
Archaea are prokaryotes that make up a third
branch of the tree of life.
The team modelled how the membrane changed, enabling LUCA's descendants to move to new, more challenging environments and evolve into two distinct types of single - celled organism, bacteria and archaea, creating the deepest
branch of the tree of life.
So while there are more microbes left to find, they may fill up known
branches of the tree of life rather than starting new ones.
Kingdoms are so 20th century when it comes to the main evolutionary
branches of the tree of life.
Focusing on the most evolutionarily unique and ancient species could allow us to save more
branches of the tree of life, at the lowest cost and effort.
But she says conservationists need to put more effort into preserving
the branches of the tree of life.
This highlights the value of investigating host — microbe relationships from
all branches of the tree of life, including those in which only a single symbiotic species is involved.
Modern molecular technologies (genomics and other omics), through comparing nucleic acid and amino acid sequences across living species, are enabling the identification of genetic components and patterns stingily conserved by evolution, from those in which times of evolutionary
branching of the tree of life can be inferred.
These newly identified organisms might have a big impact on our understanding of the deeper
branches of the tree of life giving us new hints about the emergence of the eukaryotic cell.
The team found two teeth belonging to rat - like animals that date back 145 million years, meaning they're among the earliest creatures on our particular
branch of the tree of life to have been discovered.
Not exact matches
In many ways, building a successful business that can be passed down the
branches of your family
tree is seen as the American Dream.
Instead
of being at the top where it's normally found, it's included in the
branches of a
tree that's built into the background design (or some other creative way to include a menu other than the standard way).
As you discover and practice new emotional intelligence skills, the billions
of microscopic neurons lining the road between the rational and emotional centers
of your brain
branch off small «arms» (much like a
tree) to reach out to the other cells.
Martin Luther, founder
of the Lutheran
branch of Christianity, is fabled to have set up the first Christmas
tree lit by candles.
Like Miles Davis and other «superboss» artists, Prince prided himself on being the foundation
of a talent
tree, and watching his
branches find their own paths.
The local government's crippling debt
of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations
of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming
tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.
I don't cut the
branches, or the
tree, because then I'd run out
of fruit eventually.
Orlando isolates twelve types
of writing about the nonfunctional, each
of them deriving from one
of the bifurcating
branches of a neat semantic
tree.
A
branch will not wither as long as it is part
of a
tree.
Sort
of like after you prune
branches from a
tree: it grows stronger afterwards.
All religions, arts and sciences are
branches of the same
tree.
Mimivirus is so much more genetically complex than all previously known viruses, not to mention a number
of bacteria, that it throwing our whole conception
of the
branching «
tree of life» into disarray.
Does not the «
tree»
of social evolution point to only a small
branch of Jew and a small
branch of Christlikeness?
«If you could say that
of a
Tree that was alive,» the narrator adds, «its leaves opening, its
branches growing and bending in the wind that Niggle so often felt or guessed, and had so often failed to catch.
In the upper world, mind, thought, and ideas make their appearance as fruit on the topmost
branches of an evolutionary
tree.
As it turned out, it was good that I did this because by the end
of the summer, all those
branches and
trees along the edge had died, being scorched from the heat
of the flames.
This is another name
of the Messiah, and indicates that, even after it would appear that the family
tree of Jesse has been cut down, yet one
Branch will grow out
of the stump.
They are just another
branch of the
tree planted by Martin Luther.
God could also harvest rich fruit from dead
branches of a fallen
tree, and did exactly that when Jesus ended up dead as dust and gravel.
Though it is the smallest
of seeds, yet, when it has grown up, it is the largest
of garden plants, and becomes a
tree, so that the birds
of the sky come and roost in its
branches.»
We like to sit there in the near - dark and watch them, swooping down to the forest floor, returning to rest on the
branches of the
trees with their prizes.
But on a
tree which has had to struggle against inner accidents
of its own development and external accidents
of climate, the broken
branches, the torn leaves, and the dried or sickly or wilted blossoms have their place: they reveal to us the greater or lesser difficulties encountered by the
tree itself in its growth.
The capital virtues and vices find themselves in the trunk and main
branches of their respective
tree.
Every species is a
branch on the
tree of life.
PERSPECTIVE: At one time science and religion were two
branches of the same philosophical
tree and still should be.
If, on the
tree of life, the mammals form a dominant
branch, indeed the dominant
branch, then the primates (that is, the cerebro - mammals) are its leading shoot, and the anthropoids are the bud in which the shoot ends.
Again, I'm glad that Acts 29 chose to exert some accountability, but lopping off a
branch and some bad fruit isn't taking the axe to the root
of the
tree... it's just a bit
of pruning.
Many other specific acts
of good or evil flow out
of the main parts
of the
tree into tiny
branches, buds and fruit.
«The
tree of Abolition is evil,» declared Reverend Henry Van Dyke in 1860, «and only evil — root and
branch, flower and leaf, and fruit; that it springs from, and is nourished by an utter rejection
of the Scriptures.»
Birds in the
branches of a
tree, for example, are used in rabbinic literature as a symbol
of Gentiles who in the last days will seek shelter in the shade
of Israel.
Up through the
branches of the
trees I respect and love.
That
branch on the evolution
tree of mans soul gets cut off when it is not fit for the kingdom it is evolving towards.
A dam can also be made by a dead
tree falling in a river, followed by backfilling
of smaller
branches and stones, tumbled into place by the water.
It's like a
branch on a
tree, there's still the rest
of the
tree, it's not like it just disappears.
His reflections on these issues culminate in chapter 11, where the theme
of Israel's apistia arises once again in Paul's metaphor about the olive
branches broken off the
tree: «They were broken off because
of their apistia, but you [gentiles] stand only through pistas... But even these, if they do not persist in apistia, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.»
At first apples, representing the fall, were secured to the
branches of the
tree.
Our Lord declared in Matthew 24:32 - 35: «Now learn a parable
of the fig
tree; When his
branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.