Sentences with phrase «comes to the door asking»

She spoke of a working class childhood in Waitsfield, Vermont when people would come to the door asking for help, and her father never turned anyone away.

Every month someone comes to the door asking me to «lock in» my gas or electric rate, protecting it in case it goes up.

Today a police officer came to the door asking to speak to me.

The upshot: When that sketchy person comes to your door asking for «charitable donations,» you can compliment his appearance — nice prison tats!

Not exact matches

Scrambling to keep the business doors open, Corrin called up his girlfriend at the time (who is now his wife) and asked her to come help him for the day.

charles; i have to go but if you want to discuss this further just ask these questions thenext time Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door or go to http://www.watchtower.org to find all the truths you are looking for.

You said, «Go to jw.org to learn what the bible really teaches or just ask the next time one comes to your door and Oh did I say Free of charge?»

Think of those people who hear a different drummer and who ask questions and who have been asked to hang their personality at the door to don the clone identity of whatever group they were in... they can come to you and know its safe... that their questions won't be answered in cliches or received with disapproval.

But I also came across him when I had to ask the librarian if I could borrow The Wittenburg Door, a magazine that deflates religious pomposity wherever it is found.

But no one is going to come knock on your residence hall room door and ask if you want a job.

I would equate it to opening the door to your home and asking Satan to come on in and eat.

Isn't that what Jesus asked us to do anyway, go out into the world, not hole ourselves up in a building and expect the world to come knocking at our holy door?

If you have dreams for what you are going to do for God, and how your ministry will grow, and what books you will write, and how many children you will rescue, and how churches will beat down your door to ask you to come speak for them, the chances are pretty good that if you are following Jesus, none of this will happen and instead, He will lead you into obscurity, poverty, nakedness, danger, and sword (Rom 8:35).

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

One afternoon, as a couple of thousand empurpled bishops came lunch - bound through the great doors to their buses, an American Jewish observer, Joseph Lichten, turned to me and asked:

There is only one thing that will forever stand and that is Jesus Christ is real and you should read your Bible especially the book of John and Matthew chapter 25 everything in there is coming to pass and Jesus is getting ready to reveal himself to all the athesist buddhist etc the whole world.He is the King of King and lord of lords, if you think i'm crazy ask him to reveal himself to you if you are serious.Christianty is not a thing it is again a personal relationship with Christ thru his Holly Spirit that if you are 100 % ready to call on and accept, its like your job you go to everyday you open the door and walk thru it, if you didn't you wouldn't know that it was there.

I hate it when they come knocking on my door trying to convert me or ask me for money, all the while telling me about a god that they have not one shred of proof about, but who is apparently going to send people to hell forever, because he is soooo loving this god of theirs.

Where is Christ standing, in this 4 walls and roof (a particular church) or outside knocking on the door asking us to come out and be what He wants us to be.

The Bible says Jesus stands at the door of your heart and gently knocks, asking to come in.

I mean, how dare I get annoyed when a mormon comes to my door and asks me if I want to accept jesus into my life and then condemns me to the most horrible place they can think of because I don't agree with them, not because they want to, but because they have to.

Kabel I am a mulish and I live in US, I actually had church people knock on our door and asking us that Jesus, peace be upon him, love you and give us booklet to study and read, they even brought bible in my language to read... we had to tell them we have our own believes but they kept insisting... the came several times within months in our house and each time my mom would invite them and serve them tea...

«Whether it is something as simple as the takeaway section (that came from guests coming to our back door of our kitchen to buy food to go), our shipping department from guests asking for stone crabs to take on an airplane — what we do is take care of our customers,» he adds.

I remember loving the day when the girl scouts came by door to door, asking for any cookie orders.

In Gulfport, where he moved in 2009, neighborhood children along Stanton Circle would come knocking at his door, asking him to toss a football.

However, Arsenal want him out the door in this window which has opened the door for United, who have now come in aggressively and are ready to meet the asking price — which gives Sanchez the option of where he wants to play.

The place was crowded around 7 pm and I saw them turning people away at the door (or asking them to leave their name and come back later).

We asked to be moved as the phone didn't work and the wardrobe doors were a hazard — they kept coming off the runner at top and could not be fixed.

By October he was in isolation after losing the feeling in his legs due to a MRSA abscess in his spine three yearsclater he came home resentful not willing to just keepnthings the way they had always been before he became I'll, and he was not going to ask for any thing to be allowed him, he was taking it weather or not any one agreed, in fact two weekscafter he walked in the door he made the pronouncement he was the only judge and arbitor of what he was allowed and he was not letting any one decide his life and as the main thief that stole 31 years of his life hevwasvstarting with me to take some of it back and he raped me as I begged that I was going to a dinner vevent and we would all meet any where he wanted in four hours to try and think of solutions to what he was angry about.

Ask her how she would handle certain situations, like a stranger coming to the door, the smoke alarm sounding, or a neighbor asking if you're out of town.

Dear Abby: What is a 25 - year - old woman to do when people keep coming to her door and asking, «Is your mother home?»

I believe that it would be kind of hard to do it in the hospital full of doctors and nurses, coming and going through the door and asking you what is your pain number.

But ask any mother and they will tell you how sometimes your baby / toddler / child will get so excited when your partner comes to the door you will think your child actually hates being with your during the day and would much rather hang out with dad!

«When the door was opened for people to ask questions, I was the first person to put up my hand; it is possible that the minister did not see me... anytime I put up my hand so forcefully, the minister came and said this is the time we want gender balance so it has to be a woman and of cause not being a woman I didn't have the chance and then he will come up and say no we've had a one or two newspapers so let's have radio, because I wasn't with radio, I didn't have the chance and so on and I was getting deeply frustrated and I am not saying this to mean the minister was deliberately avoiding me; it may well be that he genuinely wanted to achieve that balance... it went on and on until the President made an intervention which led to my being given the microphone; that for me may have indicated that the President was willing to listen to everybody...» he narrated.

Are we going to wait until we see body bags of children coming out of an illegal school because they could not get out because of dead - bolted exit doors,» asked Rockland County Executive Ed Day.

There is no single person in Nigeria today, who has a skeleton in his cupboard that doesn't await the knocking of his door for an EFCC man or a security person coming to his house to ask questions.

So, when local candidates, from which ever party, come knocking on our doors — we should force them to take some responsibility by asking «What will YOU doing to bring back powers from the EU and put Britain First?»

He continued that «they come to your door, ask you to open.

Rennich seemed worth a try, so Cutrer asked him and his wife, Jean, to come to the ymca next door to his research lab.

The problem came to light when architect Patrick Langlois, who is based in Abingdon, asked for the window and door frames of a house to be made of kamarere (Eucalyptus deglupta), a hardwood that grows in the rainforests of Southeast Asia.

I realized I wanted a way to share some of the revelations that arose from my own Food / Mood / Poop tracking and also reveal how we use this simple tool with clients in our counseling fold (and yes, we do indeed use this inexpensive tool with nearly every client who comes in our door), so I asked Jen Baum, one of my lead nutritionists, to hop on video with me so we could chat about how we use the tracking tool personally and professionally.

In fact, people only come to my mom's parties for the hummus (j / k, kind of, I always hear people ask if there is hummus when they walk in the door).

The kids took turns running up and down the street, knocking on doors, asking people to come outside and have some lemonade and muffins.

Worried by Bob's habit of spending all day working in the basement playing loud music, Chris asks his friend to listen out for the door bell and show anyone who comes calling inside.

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Instead of asking why parents don't come to meetings, I ask why there was no sign on the front door of the school telling visitors how to get in.

When you are sitting at your writing or publishing computer and are afraid to do something for no reason, look up at the nearest door and ask yourself if a large goon sent by some editor will come though that door and smash your computer if you do what you are afraid of doing.

Not knowing when publication would come again, I asked myself why I was still busting my backside for no pay while I had bills to pay and my family stood outside my office door asking if I could come out and play.

I don't much care what's in it so long as it has a door I can shut and lock so people don't come asking me to do things.

Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won't even hear about the suicide until two months later, when the door to the Glasgow Inn opens and the last person Alex would ever expect comes walking inside to ask for his help.

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