Sentences with phrase «called upon people»

He told a reporter yesterday that the government had called upon people like him who had once ruled this country to come together toward charting a course for lasting peace.

His message also called upon people not to be afraid of fighting for their rights and suffering with Christ.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rt Rev Justin Welby has called upon people to pray for people around the globe who have been forced to leave their homes.

In the previous discussions of the Qur» an we have seen that it contains many specific passages calling upon the people to follow its teachings and be guided by its legislation.

Islam calls upon all people to accept its beliefs and code of laws regardless of race, sex, color, rank, or any other difference.

In calling upon the people to guide their lives by these ethical principles, Islam insists, in the main, that they should be moderate in all things, sparing themselves misery and not lowering their status in life.

I guess you can still call upon people's fear of death, and what lies beyond that to give God some «teeth», but even this is losing it's edge.

The Church teaches forgiveness and calls upon her people to bring sinners back into the fold and help them reconcile with the Community.

In some of the buildings around here, we barely have bathrooms but as the current president proclaimed yesterday, in declaring the day, «I call upon the people of the United States to celebrate the achievements of women and observe this day with appropriate programs and activities.»

«We call upon all people to show love and concern for each segment of the community as we would to members of our own family.

If you don't plan on calling upon people for help, I'd go with Sunday.

Kicking off the UN Ocean Conference June 4 is the inaugural World Ocean Festival, a day of celebration calling upon people to be «A Collective Voice for the World's Ocean.»

A campaign to rally public support for the Sustainable Development Goals is calling upon people to #LightTheWay to fight poverty.

Dialogue The Qur» an tells us to call upon people to do good, and for them to shun wrong.

Not exact matches

«We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was.

This is because there hasn't been a so - called «killer app» that keeps people interested enough to spend hours upon hours wired up to their headsets.

Most people never stray beyond the call / put options, but if you can spot opportunities that lie outside this scope, you will want to capitalize upon them.

It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

All faithful people, at some time in their lives, are called upon to witness to one another, offer comfort and encouragement, and remind one another of God's promises.

Therefore, I call upon You: I wish to devote my mouth and my heart to you; I shall teach the people.

Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.

Again, the problem is that «Christ» has connotations that Jesus was divine, whereas the actual words used, «anointed one» simply refer to any human called upon by God to aid the Jewish people.

There still remain places and occasions when a designated person of faith is called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.

Call upon representatives of the various religions, sects and denominations to confront all forms of religious bigotry, villification, and denegration of what people hold sacred, as well as all speech that promote hatred and bigotry;

He was born under such and such circumstances; he came under the formative influences of the people to which he belonged; and when upon reaching maturity he felt an inner impulse and call to this end, he began in his own way to teach others.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

This quest calls for a total encounter with the person of Jesus, and calls upon the seeker himself to make a radical decision.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

People in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be called upon to help people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a cPeople in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be called upon to help people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a cpeople through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a crisis.

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.

The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all people of faith and good will.

I've met a lot of people who are living out their vocation based upon a call to a particular mission.

On their replying that Allah and His Messenger knew best, he said, «These are the clouds (anan), these are the water - carriers of the Earth, which Allah drives to people who do not thank Him or call upon him.»

Later, as I reflected upon the incident, I pondered whether it might be possible to have a more satisfactory confrontation with these good people who feel called to push doorbells.

The prevalence of anti-gay messages encourages bullying and hate crimes, and there are literally confused, hurt, frightened young people who actually kill themselves over issues like this — and yet people still insist upon calling homosexuality a sin.

But if it is a supplementary image to the clinical image, then it can be a potent reminder that the pastor goes into the highways, byways, new housing developments, and slums to find and assist with needs, and does not merely call when needs are already known or wait until people call upon him.

The surge of patriotism has sometimes spilled over into jingoism, which is not surprising in view of the brutality of the assault upon the security of what now, quite suddenly, people are calling our «homeland.»

Warning that millions of people already in debt are being left with «nothing to fall back on», Dr John Sentamu called upon minister to reduce the time period.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

He calls upon us to try to expand our sense of «us» as far as we can, to seek to understand marginalized» people, to see traditional differences as unimportant when compared with similarities with respect to pain and humiliation, to create a more expansive sense of who «we» are.

The original message of Jesus, as was the case with all other Prophets, such as Abraham, Moses and Muhammad (peace be upon all of them), was to call the people to worship the ONE TRUE GOD ONLY.

There are limits to human potential, and persons are called upon to acknowledge their creaturely status.

It is rather the risk of abuse to which canonical texts are subject that calls upon the teacher to be more restrained than the poets and prophets in the interpretations which he or she allows people to commend to one another.

The fact that people are tempted to abuse Scripture by calling upon it to support whatever they believe is one of the reasons it is inappropriate most of the time to think that the primary theological debate is about whether the biblical text is authoritative or not.

This unique emphasis upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual person and the other for what Edmund Burke called «the little platoons» of daily life.

YOU, on the other hand, are a self - admitted slave to a bunch of rules that call for the death of other people based upon imaginary criteria subject to your own level of schizophrenia.

Soon, an acquaintance observed a while ago, the New Yorker would have cartoons (the magazine insists upon calling them «drawings») with naked people in bed.

But as more and more of us find ourselves called upon to provide such prosthetic support to afflicted parents, relatives, or friends, we may find it a challenge to remember that such patients are never less than persons.

The accounts of the «calling» of disciples are bald, and less informative than we might wish, but it stands firm that Jesus called upon certain persons to cut loose from home, family and livelihood and commit themselves to an insecure and precarious existence — and all for the sake of a cause which they only dimly understood — and that they responded.