Sentences with phrase «by yoke»

Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

First, we recognize, as the Jerusalem elders did, that salvation comes not by the yoke of tradition, itself hard enough to bear (Acts 15:10), but through the grace of the Lord Jesus.

But Democrats write they won't directly address Cuomo's ethics proposals, considering that the governor is stretching his budgetary powers by yoking policy to spending.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, dropping ALL Patheos blogs is unhelpful — sites like Unequally Yoked (Leah Libresco), Bad Catholic (Marc Barnes) and Cranach (Gene Veith) are all maintained by individuals, and joined Patheos after their initial founding.

«When we rightly celebrate what happened 50 years ago today, we do so best by turning to him and saying, «Yes, we take your yoke on our shoulders with you»».

The burden of that yoke is lightened again and again by friends and prayer, by faith and most of all by hope.

Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.

From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers of the earth and the skies to be brought under God's yoke as completely as he would wish.

While many longed for the restoration of Judah to its former glory and sighed hopefully for a political messiah to sit again on the throne of David, the Zealots who wished to throw off the Roman yoke by violent revolution were a relatively small group.

For when in summer the peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

When a young ox was to be trained, he was yoked with an older and stronger one and the yoke was so made that the end worn by the young ox was longer than the other, making the older ox pull a larger share of the load.

According to Bercier, «the highest act of man is not his exercise of reason in discerning the forms of nature» but rather his «responsibility for his own being and identity as it is authoritatively addressed to him by the Logos»; in other words, man's special dispensation of reason is for the sake of directing human nature towards «its most perfect end in man's own right self - governance» versus a liberation from the yoke of that nature.

Plow and yoke were primary implements prepared by a carpenter for the use of the farming community and the peasants constantly required the use of these two for their agricultural activities.

Today's post is an excerpt from Yoked: Stories of a Clergy Couple in Marriage, Family and Ministry, a collection of true stories is written by Mihee and Andy.

Liberal studies thus exemplify the apparent paradox that one can become free only by submitting to a yoke.

Acts 15:10 «10 Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?»

[Conclusion of the astute synopsis by Mr. Entel, followed by his even more astute questions:] Plato, Hancock contends, enacts this yoke between being and knowing by seemingly affirming the simple superiority of theory to practice, thus suppressing the question of the relation between the good of....

As G.K.Chesterton noted, those who ridicule the whole idea of vows often seem to imagine that they are some kind of yoke imposed on reluctant lovers by the devil.

Jesus didn't try to heal, feed or befriend the whole world during His three - year ministry career, so why do we yoke ourselves to a dream of accomplishing all of our life goals by our 30th birthday?

The parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14 recounts the excuses given by those invited: One of them says that he has to go look at his newly bought piece of land; another says that he has to examine his five yoke of oxen.

To this natural question, Jesus replied that he should «do all that righteousness demands» and, by «righteousness», he meant bearing the whole yoke of the Father's will.

A different reason, too, for the literary philosemitism of Ulysses: Leopold Bloom's bumbling personality casts him as the butt of jokes and disdain, but he's also the means for yoking the story of Odysseus with the story of Europe's Jews; a person and a people hounded by the powerful.

As for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and took.

We don't want to yoke too many images together by violence, push our resemblances too hard.

Only two reactions remained to it: that of becoming enchanted by and submitting to the gentle yoke of God, or of hating and persecuting.

Indeed, I have come to understand more and more that it is only by wearing the yoke of Christ and following his guiding reins that we have that perfect freedom for which so many long in our society.

IN PLURIMIS (On the Abolition of Slavery) Pope Leo XIII Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on 5 May 1888 The words of St. Gregory the Great are very applicable here: «Since our Redeemer, the Author of all life, deigned to take human flesh, that by the power of His Godhood the chains by which we were held in bondage being broken, He might restore us to our first state of liberty, it is most fitting that men by the concession of manumission should restore to the freedom in which they were born those whom nature sent free into the world, but who have been condemned to the yoke of slavery by the law of nations.»

It is important to add salt (in bread - baking) because (excerpted from Wild Sourdough by: Yoke Mardewi):

The successful court case brought by Andy Messersmith the previous winter had essentially freed ballplayers from the yoke of the reserve clause, allowing them to sell their services on the open market when their contracts expired.

, lengthened the sleeves, made the sleeves narrower at the shoulder, and definitely lengthened the yoke (by 8 rows, I do remember that).

The Mule made answer: «I am not moved by your words, but I fear him who, sitting on the next seat, guides my yoke.»

Both measures have been lashed together by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who in his 30 - day amendments last week also yoked the measures to funding for the Tuition Assistance Program.

Najmi, otherwise a perfectly reasonable fellow, inexplicably yoked himself to the questionable «Make the Road by Walking,» a group of rabble - rousers for hire who bully local politicians into funding their dubious social service projects.

But Cuomo this year has yoked the proposal to the DREAM Act, which is generally supported by liberals and has stalled in the Senate.

And some measures are already being yoked together: A Senate Republican bill would extend mayoral control for one year and lift the statewide cap on charter schools by 100.

A March 2009 study by biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and biologist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 81 percent of the 408 new mammal species discovered in the last 15 years are yoked to local ecosystems and likely to become extinct.

It's both dazzling and chilling to realize that the narrative arc of our lives relies on a phenomenon that is by turns robust, fallible, malleable, potent, slippery, inventive, and above all, powerfully yoked to emotion.

Yoga comes from the Sanskrit root «yuj» «yoke, join, or union,» and is perfectly designed to help bridge the mind and body together by using the breath.

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Ossie Clark green silk evening dress with print by Celia Birtwell - Drawstring fastenings at neck and cuffs with ruffled trim - Semi-sheer yoke - Two pleated panels around the bust - Full skirt with silk lining - during the mid to late 70s Celia»...

I'm hoping to finish up a couple of short - sleeved sweaters for Viva Las Vegas in April, but knowing how I love to jump to other projects (and that I have some sewing I'd like to do between now and then, too), I'll be happy if I get Fair Isle Yoke completed by then.

Slip into effortless style with this striped top from Coco Bianco shaped by flirty tiered ruffles on the yoke and sleeves and a shoulder - baring halter neckline.

Ossie Clark green silk evening dress with print by Celia Birtwell - Drawstring fastenings at neck and cuffs with ruffled trim - Semi-sheer yoke - Two pleated panels around the bust -...

* By Pink Chicken * A-line silhouette * V - neckline * Sleeveless * Sequined front yoke * Keyhole back with button closure * Knee length * 100 % cotton * Imported ⚠ WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts.

I found an old knitting pattern at my mum's house that told me how often and by how many stitches to decrease for the yoke: For about 15 cm I decreased one stitch on either side of the raglan joints (where the sleeve meets the body) every sixth row, thereafter every fifth row.

Madrid Esse evokes the glamour of runway by its perfectly yoked and tapered shoulder, stylish front closure and box --LSB-...]

Delightfully feminine, this blouse by Isha Jain features puffed cap sleeves and pin tucks down the front Kantha running stitch embroidery defines the yoke, and paisley block prints adorn the front.