Sentences with phrase «by holy ground»

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I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

The Church, as the community of his followers united by his living presence as Holy Spirit, is more than a social institution; it is a divinely grounded fellowship.

Confidence in Christ's proximity is grounded in the conviction that our inner man is already grasped by the Holy Spirit.

As he spoke hundreds fell to the ground by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Let no man be brash or flippant on holy ground, in the presence of holiness, in being addressed by the Word.

Let him remove his shoes or in any appropriate way acknowledge his complete knownness on the ground made holy by the meeting of Word and word.

But not the slightest question is raised as to whether Mrs. Sadik (whose plans to have abortion declared a universal human right were derailed by the Holy See at Cairo) might not have an axe to grind in her «reconstruction» of her meeting with the Pope.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

You know the story: A smart - aleck city teen named Ren (Wormald) moves to a tiny rural town where dancing has been banned, falls for the defiant daughter (Julianne Hough) of a local preacher / city council member (Dennis Quaid), and, with the support of hayseed sidekick Willard (Miles Teller), ultimately pushes the town's moral needle by using Bible verses to recast his bumping and grinding as a holy act.

Two men promise to carry the body of an elder known only as the Sheikh to a proper burial ground across the mountains and are soon joined by a holy fool played by Shakib Ben Omar, a disruptive presence on par with Bruno S., the star of Werner Herzog's Stroszek and The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser.

by Charlotte Anderson The recording studio on East 30th Street in Manhattan was once holy ground.

Major exhibitions Brand brought to the Getty include Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai, California Video, Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture, and, most recently, he opened Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: Telling the Difference.

«We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.»