Sentences with phrase «by miraculous»

To take an extreme example, suppose we knew that the precise value of climate sensitivity would be revealed to us by some miraculous process in exactly a year's time.

By miraculous use of irony?

Driving two hours from New York was off - set by the miraculous results I was hearing from the unedited drafts of the audiobook.

It is a suitably perverse twist that the only person who has the clearest idea of what's she is doing in the Coen Brothers latest offering, BURN AFTER READING, is Linda Litzke, the inadvertent femme fatale of the piece played by the miraculous Frances McDormand.

As his bright young son Colton (Connor Corum) is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, Todd and his wife Sonja (Kelly Reilly) are overjoyed by his miraculous survival, but they are wholly unprepared for what happens next.

Echoes of Spielberg's E.T. and Close Encounters, with their sense of the everyday being warped by the miraculous, aren't far from the surface (Elle Fanning and Joel Courtney study unidentified object, pictured right).

To the editor: As a physicist, I never cease to be amazed by the miraculous insights about our physical world and universe that continue to be garnered via scientific exploration.

The fossils preserve stages of embryonic development frozen in time by miraculous processes of fossilisation, which turned their squishy cells into stone.

The Houston Rockets escaped a potential 3 - 0 hole with a 121 - 116 victory, sealed by a miraculous three - point shot from rookie Troy Daniels.

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

Again, being filled with the Spirit is most often not accompanied by miraculous signs and wonders.

If by some miraculous feat humans were able to hide from dinosausrs until they all died out.

Too often we are distracted from the message of these stories by their miraculous nature.

From all the nations, He drew one nation apart to be his own: «Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Rather it is the result of a divine intervention from outside, through the Holy Spirit, who must already have quickened the inner man in earthly life by His miraculous power.

The oncedark church becomes illuminated by the miraculous Holy Fire.

By some miraculous dynamic of health in the nature of things — is it grace?

In the Old Testament a message from God is sometimes authenticated by a miraculous «sign» (e.g,.

During his ministry Jesus was repeatedly challenged to authenticate his mission by some miraculous act (Mk 8:11 - 13; Mt 12:38 - 39; 16:1, 4; Lk 11:16, 29).

However, the mystery of the Cross tells us that in God's Wisdom, which is the ultimate wisdom, evil and suffering are conquered in a way that goes against our natural instincts and expectations - not by miraculous intervention, but by humble acceptance; or at least, that the miraculous triumph follows on from sacrifice rather than preceding it.

And even if, by miraculous chance, I picked the right one.

Not exact matches

Carter offers eight specific tips to help you achieve the near miraculous and get more done by working less in her complete post, including what work to do in the morning and what in the afternoon, the right intervals for taking breaks, and other details of how to be productively lazy.

Jasmien Claeys had a miraculous survival after her car was totaled by two trucks when she attempted to change lanes a bit too quickly on a freeway in August.

East Eastern Christians see a dichotomy of God and creation Eastern theologians are largely unaffected by modernism Eastern theologians do not agonize over the existence of God Eastern theologians systematize the transcendent, the miraculous, and the mystical into their theology, without a concept of «supernatural» Eastern theologians have coherent and helpful answers for most practical spiritual problems (such as during bereavement) Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and Eastern clergy, monastics, and lay experts have resources for spiritual direction, moral direction, and bereavement counseling; thus they do not outsource religious problems to secular experts.

For centuries the Bible had been the central icon in Baptist life, and it seemed to be under attack by some Baptist scholars who questioned the historical and miraculous elements in Scripture.

(Jefferson did not understand proper hermeneutics as evidenced by his re-written Bible, sans the miraculous)

It can be argued, however, that to minimize the miraculous and thereby conclude that what occurs in nature in relation to particular persons can not be controlled by God alleviates the problem of natural evil only up to a point.

Cases of supposedly miraculous healing are offered as proof of God by the religious with some frequency.

It's miraculous - came into existence by the power of His spoken word!

But since there is no God or «Spirit» performing any kind of miraculous transformation on their «hearts» or personalities the degree to which they'll be the kind of good people Christians should be is determined solely by their inherent nature.

The Gospels always emphasize the response of faith, gratitude and discipleship in those who were healed by Jesus more than the miraculous events themselves.

A sign story consists of a miraculous act of Jesus usually surrounded or followed by a theological discussion of its meaning.

8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits

The first was the miraculous catch of fish narrated by Luke (Lk 5:1 - 1 1).

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

After Jesus has declared that miraculous signs like healing and tongues will follow those who believe Him, «the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.»

Instead of considering my condition a frustration of life, I could, by the gnostic negotiation, work to see the inherently miraculous nature of my state, and rest upon its indication of being in God.

He cites the occurrence of a miraculous heavenly sign at key points in the life of Mithridates VI in a history written by Justinus (active in the reign of Augustus, 2 BCE to 14 CE).»

Instead, I engage in a negotiation, in my case a primarily ironic one, that confirms my understanding of the inherently miraculous in part by rejecting a romantic vision of the occasional blessing.

From neither bodily nor congregational habitation do I see miraculous escape, either by comic recognition that will give the church a special knowing at a higher stage of development or by a romantic quest that turns the parish outward into God's undomesticated presence in the larger context.

Yes indeed: the resurrection of Jesus can not be a miraculous proof by which the skeptic might be compelled to believe in Christ.

Shahla describes the process by which she came out of Evin as «miraculous».

For the record, contrary to kermit's claim of a single witness to the miraculous plates delivery, the first 3 of the 11 witnesses to Smith's plates claimed they also saw the plates delivered by an angel while hearing the voice of God affirming that Smith's translation was indeed an act of divine revelation.

One image he used was that of Elijah, conceived of by Israel as the father of the prophetic movement, and whose life in the biblical accounts was surrounded by enormous miraculous power.

@ Cedar Tree:????? All sorts of miraculous, superhuman nonsense has been attributed to ancient rulers of other figures of yore whose existence was once accepted by this or that group and who may or may not have been based in part on some historical person or persons and absolutely NO ONE these days takes every word in every text written about these figures to be literal truth.

6:34 - 8:26 two parallel cycles of events can be traced, each of which contains, in the same sequence, a miraculous feeding of a crowd, a voyage by boat, a conflict with Pharisees, and a healing.

Our friends may well assume that the only evidence for the miraculous Jesus comes from the New Testament, written by Christians.

He possesses miraculous powers, by means of which he converts untold multitudes; he lives for hundreds of kalpas [ages] and displays hundreds of Buddha - bodies, attains unheard - of knowledge and accomplishes unheard - of wonders.

Perhaps some preacher has called the disciple; perhaps he thinks about the miraculous «body» of the Buddha perhaps he is moved by compassion for the suffering creatures.

The radical contingencies are what inspire a sense of awe and wonder: the fact that I exist at all, and the further fact that I am who I am; a «miraculous» recovery by someone who was given no chance to live; a sudden break in a stormy sky where the sun bursts through.