Sentences with phrase «clanging cymbals»

Without love, we are clanging cymbals, useless noise.

Then, books opened to the processional hymn, the singing and dancing congregation follows the candle, the cross, the rector, worship leaders carrying colorful ceremonial umbrellas, and choir members beating tambourines, ringing bells and clanging cymbals until everyone finds a seat.

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

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.

«Swami Sharanam Ayyappa» («refuge in you, Lord Ayyappa») they sang with gusto to the rhythmic thudding of drums and clanging cymbals.

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

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

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.

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

If everything we do from the first awakening breath of our day until we close our eyes at night doesn't reek of love; if our theology, doctrine, missional statements and creeds are born out of a need to «convert» rather than a deep and innate need to love those around us (aka, our neighbors), than all we have become is an annoyance and a disgrace to the communities around us, (clanging cymbals, anyone?)

«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.

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.

I believe Paul's famous letter could also read this way: If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have God, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

All else is a clanging cymbal in his ears.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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.

Not exact matches

Your thoughtful reflection will always be more impacting than the clanging - cymbal, know - it - all, self - proclaimed - orthodox leaders who think that yelling louder means being right.