Sentences with phrase «called down upon»

Just so was the Flood of Noah called down upon humanity by our sins.

Moreover, the blood of Jesus called down upon the Jewish people in Matthew 27:25 is not the blood of Abel which cries out for vengeance and punishment, but rather the Blood of the New Covenant which heals and brings reconciliation.

Not exact matches

Holding down the digital crown will call upon Siri, Apple's built - in personal assistant.

«I'm very pleased that he immediately stepped down from the RNC position — I was going to call upon him to step down,» Collins said, adding, «I'm pleased to say I've never received any money from Mr. Wynn, so I have no money to return.»

It's a worthy idea, but mention it to a christian fundy and he will call down hellfire upon you.

But Jesus, who was their guide on a tour to a land called Truth, said, «The days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down» (Matt.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

Let the Holy Lord call down punishment upon them both.

When Jesus laid upon the cross he had the means to call down a legion of angels to defend and rescue himself from the cross.

While it is tempting once again to see in these statements a vindictive Paul calling down a death curse upon his theological opponents, we must understand that such behavior does not fit the wider thought and theology of Paul.

When Paul introduces his letter to the Galatians, he is not calling down judgment and condemnation upon his theological opponents.

Pride, anger, greed, judgmentalism, and gluttony, for example, are condemned all over the place in Scripture (way more than homosexuality), and yet most Christians are content to live in such destructive lifestyles while they point the finger at homosexuals and call down God's curses upon them.

She calls down a curse upon him and he falls dead.

(102) Then, when they had both surrendered (to Allah), and he had flung him down upon his face, (103) We called unto him: O Abraham!

In this sense, Aquinas is properly called the «first Whig» because his ethics and his politics did lay claims upon the future, did inspire, down the ages, a search for political institutions worthy of the rational, consensual dignity of humans.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

If we call God's justice down upon the world, we need to be very confident that we can stand with our own head high before the Almighty.

Anyone who undertakes the office of ministry is tempted to look down upon others he is called to serve.

Of years later, they looked back on an event, experience, or speech (e.g., Isaiah upon his call) and «put it down on paper,» themselves «reducing» the remembered episode to writing.

There is usually a point in the Vineyard service where an epicletic prayer goes forth with the words «Come Holy Spirit,» which makes an important connection with the calling down of the Spirit upon the elements in the Catholic Mass or other liturgical settings.

I can call up nearly everything — except the emotion, the overwhelming waves that beat upon my sisters and me down the long stream of days in the Christmas season.

By choosing to live through the flesh, we invite the natural consequences of sin down upon our heads (Paul calls this wrath), which saddens and troubles God.

You will watch Him look upon Jerusalem, full of rebellious people, and rather than call down fire from heaven, cry.

In this case, furthermore, the intended violence of Christians against other Christians and against non-Christians is something whose «results» include the calling down of God's wrath upon the Church, part of which may well include the secularized crucible of what was once a «Christian culture.»

Am on your side on that I all my life felt that GOD Allah was on my side in Good time and at the worst times, which makes me feel things would have been worse and deadly if it wasn't for GOD mercy whom I call upon in good and bad times... we ought to be spiritually sensitive to realize signs from GOD whether it was a sight or a over heard word or a dream... when ever feeling tight chested just pray thanking, glorifying GOD asking for pardon of our sins... Am sure many had remembered and prayed well at the moments of the Irene hurricane... towards which it contributed to it to slow down or go... although it is true that not any lives were lost thanks to GOD but many billions of US Dollars financially lost at hard economical times which means maybe to say that «Individuals are not being blamed but rather it is their governing system is...?!!

For example, on Psalm 52, which is an imprecatory Psalm where David calls down curses upon his foes, Allen Ross indicates that this Psalm was probably written in connection to the incident with Doeg (1 Sam 22:17 - 23).

3) The players for letting Wenger down when he called upon them.

He has not let Pochettino down when called upon, but the potential arrival of Wanyama may leave him surplus to requirements.

And the striker bought to replace Welbeck will go straight into the treatment room where he will stay until called upon in the champions league final to score the winning goal after Giroud and Walcott are strangely substituted by Wenger... when he is struck down by a fit of realization that Arsenal are actually going to win something worthwhile....

But surprisingly, he has tenacity and pace to chase down attackers of the opposition and often these defensive skill sets will be called upon to ensure opponents fear facing him on his wing of the play.

As we head into the latter stages of the Premier League season with a title race yet to be completely decided, and a relegation battle ready to go right down to the wire, managers will be calling upon the fittest players in their respective squads to help them achieve their particular goal.

We are just NOT good enough as a team to win the EPL or the CL we are just NOT cohesive enough, we have no real fighting spirit when the chips are down, no one wants to own the game when things go wrong, The Boss doesn't change anything until it's too late (though let's be fair he doesn't have a great amount of talent to call upon when he should have) and we only really look like a championship winning team when we play the mid to lower league teams.

Lucashe has done well when call upon in the champions league, but his league form hasn't been the best (down to lack of minutes)

Once upon a time a quarterback or two would find his way down from the Canadian Leagues, strange specimens usually, darting types, «scatter guys,» Weeb Ewbank used to call them.

«We kept a clean sheet but that's down to 11 of us and when I'm called upon I hopefully make those saves, which I did.

The duo are two of only seven clubs — the rest being Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United — to have featured in every single Premier League season meaning both have been able to call upon a plethora of talent down the years.

However, Blackburn's forward options are now down to the bare bone and McCarthy will now be called upon in a bid to revert the striker back to his old goalscoring ways.

So a few years down the road when they are in college, suddenly meeting work that is way beyond them, they can call upon that memory of having tried something that felt like an impossible challenge and having overcome it, and it will convince them that they can do it again.

«A seven - month - old boy had, upon failing to get his way, stiffened, clenched his fists, bared his toothless gums and called down damnation on the whole place.

Startled to find himself called upon, he put his glass of red wine down on the nearest available surface.

«He called upon (former) Gov. (David) Paterson to step down over a baseball ticket scandal and interference in an aide's domestic violence case.»

In light of this fraud, I call upon Gigi Li to step down as Chair of Community Board 3.

He argued: «Christians are called to proclaim the Good News, and whether that vocation be in a pulpit, upon a television screen, or walking up and down Oxford Street with a sandwich board, it ought to be tolerated in a free society.»

If you say that, I have to pay it back to you, especially when these people were in government, they just looking down upon everybody and calling our president names, this time we will not allow.»

If you say that, I have to pay it back to you, especially when these people were in government, they just looking down upon everybody and calling our president names, this time we will not allow» he noted.

They wrote, «We have called upon Rensselaer County Legislature Chairman Stanley Brownell and the entire majority to join us in our request for you to step down.»

He called upon Gov. Paterson to step down over a baseball ticket scandal and interference in an aide's domestic violence case,» Mr. Lhota told the Observer.

Upon hearing computer - modified alpha male calls with a sped - up or slowed - down tempo or a shifted pitch range, the beta males fled the scene if the alteration was minute enough to be within the individual variation of a particular alpha male's roar but stayed put when confronted with more extreme changes.

According to an ancient Chinese legend, when the people of earth were starving the Emperor of Heaven gazed down upon them with compassion, and called the Ox god to him.