Sentences with phrase «came to see»

Whitehead came to see that his cumbersome explanation of novelty could be streamlined.

But even then, there is no record that anyone else, including the religious leaders of the day, came to see Jesus.

And though it was but a small thing in the eye of man, yet a wonderful confusion it brought among all professors and priests: but, blessed be the Lord, many came to see the vanity of that custom of putting off hats to men, and felt the weight of Truth's testimony against it.»

Having learned (primarily from Wittgenstein) that «description is everything,» you gradually came to see ethics as the effort to think through what is needed to make truthful description possible.

Following the moment when a few men began to see the world through the eyes of Copernicus all men came to see it in the same fashion.

The fact is, out of the entire population of Jerusalem and Judea, only a few shepherds came to see the Messiah.

It is a delicate moment: having followed eyes to alluring temptations, promising wisdom, human beings came to see, again through their eyes, their own insufficiency.

Later I came to see process theology as a theology that took these issues seriously in its concept of God.

But they came to see Boston as the new Jerusalem, a divinely ordained «city upon a hill,» a phrase Massachusetts Bay Colony founder John Winthrop used in a sermon at sea en route from England in 1630.

Newman himself came to see that the circumstances of the 1845 edition argued to a complete recasting of the text, and what we usually possess is the 1878 edition, not the 1845 original (which was itself an immediate best - seller).

But that which the Jews came to see was God's demand upon them they were not in fact able to perform.

When I finally decided that for the sake of well - being I need to walk apart and grow away from my family unit as I begin a family of my own, I came to see that the toxicity there could do nothing but continually wound because that's all it (my family) knew how to do.

They were nice people that I liked, but I came to see their real allegiance.

Barth would never mitigate his affirmation of the utter majesty of God, but he came to see that there is a greater lordship than that of an imperious potentate — i.e., the sovereignty of a God who can even risk suffering at the hands of his creatures.

Such a shattering metaphor typifies the existentialist, expressionist mood in which the early Barth — and with him the preponderance of post-World War I theology — came to see Jesus.

He came to see the binding of Satan as the binding of the strong man (Mark 3:27; Luke 11:22); the thousand years as the time between the first advent and the final conflict; the first resurrection as the resurrection which the Christian shares with Christ in baptism.

In it, Jim Turner confesses to his own sins of pride, jealousy, and discord, and explain how he came to see that such behavior is not only damaging to himself and his relationships, but also to the church at large and the church's witness to the world.

Whether people believed in Diana as a deity or not, they came to see her temple and to admire its artistry.

It was during his visit to the Paris Biennial a few years back that he came to see how reliant contemporary artists have become on what museum marketing staffs like to call «the Shock of the New.»

In this faith Christians came to see themselves as people who had «tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come» (Heb.

Through Dr. Theophilus I was introduced to the fellow I came to see, Amar Nath Singh, a young teacher with a well - trimmed beard and fiery eyes who turned out to be a nephew of Y. C. Mall.

I came to see what was wrote.

I struggled with it and rejected the so - called «Calvinism» at first, but gradually came to see that the Bible does seem to teach this, with sufficient references to the Church being chosen to conclude anything other than that salvation is totally of God, including who can come to Jesus for salvation.

As we have seen in Chapter 10 we can no longer recover the actual historical development by which the apostles came to see the significance of the death of Jesus.

I was not surprised when he finally came to see me.

I hope he eventually came to see that recognizing the kind of person one likes does not represent the full range of skills necessary for a good relationship.

Another instructor handed out tracts to cadets who came to see him.

She came to see this as a moment of genuine human doubt permitted by God the Father, in which Jesus shows the greatest love, faithfully commending his Spirit to the Father.

I came to see that is...

His thought developed over the years and he came to see an increasing place for human co-operation with the initiatives of God.

Glad you came to see the error of your ways.

But I came to see that what was important was neither what I had been taught as a child when my brother and sister died at a very early age nor what would provide some immediate comfort to me when (as was bound to happen and of course did happen some years later) my parents also died, leaving me with no close living relations.

In his book, So - Called Christian, Jim Turner confesses to his own sins of pride, jealousy, and discord, and explain how he came to see that such behavior is not only damaging to himself and his relationships, but also to the church at large and the church's witness to the world.

You remind me of a highly intelligent professional man in New York City who came to see me about admission to the Riverside Church's membership.

I came to see that being a Baptist was for me the most faithful way of being an Evangelical, a Protestant, and a Christian.

I do love the thought of how you came to see Pietism — giving yourself the gospel, and then taking it away from yourself.

He came to see the pro-choice platform as morally inadequate and tyrannical since it did not grant any real ethical importance to the existence of the fetus.

But he goes on to say that he came to see that in truth he had not lost his friend at all, despite the latter's death.

The hedonist in him relished such details in themselves, but the mature Stevens came to see them as part of a calling to some greater duty — to restore the «religious» imagination to an age of unbelief.

My question to you is that being aware that the Creation scriptures do not, just state an instant «all at once» creation by God, but detailed steps of Creation, can you explain how the writer of Genesis came to see these steps when it would take mankind hundreds of years to attempt to define the steps as evolution?

The Roman Catholic Church gradually came to see this God as the God of supernatural salvation by priestly intermediation.

But I came to see that that idea too is a possibility.

It was fine, of course, and I came to see and appreciate the customs and traditions of those around me.

I came to see, on further study, one other common element in all the images — the presence of tender and solicitous concern on the part of the shepherd.

But I came to see that it is far easier to create this society for yourself than to find it in institutions of higher learning.

As my perception changed, I came to see that theological issues were important.

«The first week I was bishop, a very sensible and senior archdeacon came to see me and said Holy Trinity Sloane Street had to be closed — it was in impermeable territory and the vicar was very depressed.

While understanding the main point of the article, I wish to add that, in my view, wise men came to see baby Jesus about six months after His birth, at Passover time, not necessarily in Bethlehem, Jesus being in a house and not in a manger.

His friends, when they came to see him, were so devastated by the depth of his suffering that they remained quiet for a week.

While I was waiting for my case to go before the judge, a friend of the family, a Salvation Army officer, came to see me.