Sentences with phrase «center of things»

In my experience, bishops think they belong at the center of things but for reasons entirely different from why other powerful people are powerful.

Then the religious nuts said the earth was the center of all things and wanted to inprison Galileo and Newton.

Itâ $ ™ s because at the root of my theology, my thoughts about God and life, is the belief that, somehow, Jesus is the center of all things.

It's going to be with us for a long time — at the center of things in the twenty - first century.

Gustafson's «theocentric» critique of our inveterate tendency to place ourselves at the center of things accords with Niebuhr's radical monotheism.

Therefore, he proposed the questionable thesis that all civilized religions really center around the same basic point, namely, that there is a permanent rightness at the center of things.

It was declared too close to the center of things, too poor, too unsanitary, a hotbed of crime.

We are removed, of course — well away from the center of things.

Through his observation of the seasons and his reading of the classics, Copernicus believed that the sun, not the earth, belonged at the center of things.

For while from childhood we have grown up to think of the earth as a planet revolving round the sun, and are ready to try to imagine the vast stretches of space which lie beyond the solar system in all directions, when we turn our attention to most other matters of human importance, the earth's surface is for us the center of things.

Humanity is not at the center of all things, but Jesus is.

It could be a decidedly selfish wish, based both on the fear of death and on a drive to be at the center of things.

Only by getting out of the center of things and helping laymen learn leadership skills can a minister enable his church to avoid the tragic waste of human capabilities so common in churches.

He would say, for example: «As long as the Gethsemane prayer stands there somehow close to the center of things, I can stand there.

Extraordinary chili pepper plant from Brazil: the center of things weird and wonderful in chili.

Starfish Extraordinary chili pepper plant from Brazil: the center of things weird and wonderful in chili.

he should be at the center of things.

Leigh Griffiths was again at the center of all things good and bad during Celtic's 2 - 0 win over Rangers.

Your nursing sanctuary could be in a private nook in your home where you can close the door and dim the lights — or in the center of things so you can ask for help when you need it or chat with whoever else is around.

If we picture the solar system, we often picture our dominant star at the center of things, static and immobile as planets orbit circles around it.

If hotel life is more your speed, there is an upscale hotel called The Pearl located right in the center of things and a short walk to the beach.

If i could, watching in your eyes, to feel the scent of the sea and dive me in a world of dreams, if you succeeded to read my spirit and to count my breaths, if grazing to you I have arrived to the center of the things...

Having Christ the center of all things makes all the difference in the world.

At the center of things is 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a lifelong music lover whose family has forbidden him to strum a guitar and sing.

Putting the characters played by Bruhl and Pike at the center of things has the unfortunate effect of German - splaining the Middle Eastern conflict; putting distractingly inauthentic eyebrows on Marsan's face has the unfortunate effect of pulling focus in a subtly undermining way.

GS: I think this year's theme is the attempt to bring genre much more into the center of things.

It's my unwillingness to be at the center of things.

At the center of things, at least initially, are middle - aged parents Daphna and Michael Feldmann (Sarah Adler and reliably superb Lior Ashkenazi).

Though the title refers to Hoffman's Dodd, a L. Ron Hubbard - like figure, the marketing so far suggests that it's really Phoenix's Freddie that's at the center of things.

When you're too much at the center of things: You're doing most of the talking, or your group seems to be relying on you for solutions.

Bethel bills itself as a fundamental Christian school whose purpose is to «provide its students with an educational program that in its entirety, exalts and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ by making Him the center of all things.»

Michigan, which has long been the center of the automotive industry in the United States and a worldwide automotive icon, is struggling to keep itself at the center of all things auto.

Screens are getting bigger, and they've got to go somewhere; the alternative is plonking these iPad - size infotainment monstrosities right in the center of things a la the Volvo XC90 or the Ram 1500.

Some birds are very social and need to be at the center of things.

Although it is right in the center of things, it is still reasonably quiet at night.

(Some people think it's too far from the center of things, but we like walking — that's partly what Venice is about, right?)

Although we are in the center of things, you will not notice that you are even in a city.

I like to be in the center of things when I'm staying in a city, on or close to the beach in a beach destination, ect.

Now the empty lot across the street is an almost finished apartment building and galleries and restaurants are filling the buildings and lots north of us, to almost the mid-town and we are back at the center of things.

He appeared at the center of things in «Anti-Illusion» at the Whitney thanks to Marcia Tucker, in «Nine at Leo Castelli,» and in the very opening of Paula Cooper.

Perhaps this is what is the key to the series, the insight of thinking of both the center of things, as well as the less - explored edges of our minds - eye.

The images in which he places his family − his wife eleanor and daughter Barbara − at the center of things are later replaced by other subjects that essentially stem from his numerous journeys, for instance, through France, Italy, Ireland, Morocco, Portugal, Mexico and Peru.