Sentences with phrase «clanging cymbal»

I am ashamed of the bumper stickers, the t - shirts, the logos, the fog machines, the light shows, the celebrities, and that paralyzing fear of Silence we're so bound and determined to avoid that we keep shouting and shouting and shouting at one another till our words are just clanging cymbals echoing off church walls.

Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging cymbals unless our lives have inspired the world to ask.

They are just clanging cymbals, distracting us from the gentle whisper that affirms what we already know, deep inside: We are known.

In that moment, that phrase was like a clanging cymbal ringing in my ear.

«13 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

The apostle Paul stated it best in 1 Corinthians 13: «If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.»

As Paul reminds us, if we do not have love we are «a noisy gong or clanging cymbal» (1 Corinthians 13:1)

But every time, those tweets serve the same purpose as the clanging cymbal Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 13 — merely a way to make noise.

All else is a clanging cymbal in his ears.

We (the church) get too caught up in worldly marketing tactics to try to reach people... clanging cymbals.

Orthodoxy without orthopraxy is St. Paul's «noisy gong or clanging cymbal.»

It is I who need reminding that «if I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

«If I speak in the tongues [a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Paul makes the same point, but even more emphatically, when he tells us it doesn't matter how right we are, how spiritually gifted we are, how intelligent or wise we are, or even how much faith and service we display: if these aren't accompanied by love, they are a noisy gong or clanging cymbal (I Cor 13:1 - 3).

Paul even writes that words are secondary to our motives: «If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.»

13 If I speak in the tongues [a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

The Apostle Paul said: «If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

But if I can't love my critics unconditionally, all my talk of missional living and interdenominational cooperation is just useless noise, clanging cymbals.

«If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

And without love, our discussions and debates and polemics are just clanging cymbals that hurt the ears of God.

We need to disregard Rommey because he is «as a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal», at best «satan appearing as a angel of «light», to deceive many people.

If I can't approach hyper - Calvinists with the same love and grace with which I approach the poor, the homeless, and the oppressed, I'm nothing more than clanging cymbal.

The biblical allusions continue when Dylan depicts the waves crashing like cymbals, a reference to the Apostle Paul's «clanging cymbals» of faith (1 Cor.

Because, «if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Without love, we are clanging cymbals, useless noise.

1 Corinthians 13:1 «If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.»

personal» if i speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, i am only a resounding going or a clanging cymbal.

If I speak in the tongues [languages] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

At 12:18 pm on Monday, September 21, people around the world will kick - off Global Climate Change Week in New York City by making some noise, ringing a bell, banging a gong, clanging cymbals, hollering, etc. to urge

At 12:18 pm on Monday, September 21, people around the world will kick - off Global Climate Change Week in New York City by making some noise, ringing a bell, banging a gong, clanging cymbals, hollering, etc. to urge leaders to take bold action.