Sentences with phrase «cities on a hill»

Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.

As Augustine argued in the City of God, the fall of the eternal city, or any city on a hill, does not mean the failure of history's purpose and humanity's flourishing.

Those who made this argument pointed to God's call to be a city on the hill and a blessing to the nations.

This systemic usurpation of Jesus complete headship and right to His people, by a worldwide cabal of homo lupus is the backbone of the culture that hides the light under the bushel and shrouds the city on the hill, so that the world remains in darkness.

We want to be a beacon, a city on a hill, an outpost for the Kingdom of God.

One might even suggest that world - view thinking on the Evangelical side, especially its wedding of politics with divine law to create a city on a hill, reveals a hand tilted toward the creational mandate.

A city on a hill can not be hidden.

The film challenges the conceit of Wakanda as an affluent city on a hill, and when you see it surrounded by a world in preventable peril, it feels uncomfortable.

I still say they can win in November, I hope to God not, if they pull that Reaganesque Shining City on a Hill crap.

Barkun's theorists, intent on smoking out the evil that threatens our beloved city on a hill, are a part of this deep - rooted tradition.

Reagan, it must be conceded, flirted with it in his biblically informed vision of America as a «city on a hill» providentially established by God as example to the nations.

Our cities, our nation and our world bear little resemblance to Winthrop's «city on a hill.»

But increasing numbers of evangelical as well as liberal Christians realize that the price required to build Reconstructionism's «city on a hill» is too high: it would mean the scrapping of their own hard - won religious and civil freedoms.

Reconstructionists leave little doubt that they are consciously imitating the Puritans of the early 17th century in establishing «a city on a hill» and calling on the New Testament (e.g., Matt.

The Puritan city on the hill, the Declaration's natural law, and the Federalist's «new science of politics,» make one's own foundations as one of innovation, and such innovation needs the latest of data driven information.

What if Christians became a true «city on a hill» amid the earthly cities where we increasingly hold the minority view?

I don't know about you, but this is the kind of «city on a hill» I want to live in.

Building up the waste places of the wilderness and creating a city on a hill were definitely seen as part of God's commandment to the Massachusetts Bay colonists.

And the people of God are salt, and light, a city on a hill.

Like a city on a hill.

-- Richard M. Gamble is director of the honors program at Hillsdale College and author of In Search of the City on a Hill.

Being a healer, a bridge builder, a truth - teller, a peace maker, a joyful subversive, a celebration disciple, an expectant prophet who dares to show up as a light on a lamp stand, a city on a hill of this world.

American dominance and isolation and perfect security ended with the launching of Sputnik and the rise of a third world with its commitment to neutrality rather than to either communist or capitalist ideologies, and it challenged your notion and mine of this country's manifest destiny to be the city on the hill, the new Eden, the covenanted people — as never before in U.S. history.

Do we stand a «city on a hill»?

Ever since the Puritan John Winthrop said that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a «city on a hill» Americans have seen themselves as God's chosen people — a new Israel with a special destiny.

America is not a «shining city on a hill,» though we should let our light of freedom be a shining example for the entire world.

This new kingdom would be «a city on a hill» and its power would come from contrasting itself with the kingdoms of this world — not by taking them over or improving upon them.

For example, building a city on a hill is sound strategy for self - defense, but the increased visibility attracts even more hostility.

After eight years of George W Bush, America is in a similar emotional state and nowhere does Schama seek to draw the parallel and provide an insight as to how Barack Obama can heal those wounds, unite the country and — in Ronald Reagan's words — turn America back into a shining city on the hill.

«Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more «A Tale of Two Cities» than it is just a «Shining City on a Hill.»»

«This nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on the hill.»

Cuomo gave a preview of his speech at the New York delegation breakfast this morning, which included a tribute video to his father, playing clips of his 1984 convention keynote in which he rebutted Ronald Reagan's «shining city on a hill.»

In the most famous passage delivered on the night of July 16, Mario Cuomo took aim at Reagan's stirring imagery of America as a «shining city on a hill.»

Gov. Mario Cuomo was 52 years old when he delivered his stirring «Tale of Two Cities» address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco — a proudly liberal rejoinder to President Ronald Reagan's election - year vision of America as a «shining city on the hill.»

«The 2018 election is our moment in New York political history and will be our chance to make New York again a fiscally sound, industrious, creative and prosperous state and as such the brightest light in that «shining city on a hill» — The United States of America,» Cox said.

Cuomo's will be trying to live up to the very high bar set by his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, with his memorable 1984 «tale of two cities» speech, in which he called out Republican President Reagan for his «shining city on a hill» rhetoric.

In his Democratic convention speech, Cuomo referenced Ronald Reagan's line about America being a «shining city on a hill.»

«Mr. President you ought to know this nation is more a tale of two cities, than it is just a shining city on a hill,» said Cuomo, who chided Reagan for ignoring the poor and caring more about tax cuts for millionaires and funding missiles.

«Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more a tale of two cities than it is just a shining city on a hill,» former Gov. Cuomo said at the 1984 convention.

Positano is a city on a hill, so there was lots and lots of walking up through winding streets.

Sugar is a wicked companion piece to Aronofsky's The Wrestler, both of them using sports as the means through which Billy Wilder protagonists seek entrance to the city on the hill — only to find that their vehicle may also be their yoke.

Showtime has handed out a twelve - episode order for the drama series «City on a Hill» starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge.

Showtime has handed a 12 - episode series order to City On A Hill, its drama pilot starring Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Underground).

Former Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy, along with Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest), Jere Shea (Passion) and Lauren E. Banks (Instinct) have been cast opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in City on a Hill, Showtime's drama pilot executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

«City On A Hill has the veneer of a classic Boston cops - and - robbers drama, but actually dives head first into challenging the very institutions it depicts,» said David Nevins, President & CEO of Showtime Networks.

In the show's synopsis, City on a Hill will focus on the pre-miracle period, where violent criminals and bent cops ran the area.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

City on a Hill (COAH), for example, saw a marked rise in its already - strong test scores.

Boston - area charter networks City on a Hill Charter Public School and Phoenix Academy implemented tutors corps of their own.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the school.