Sentences with phrase «coming near to»

The humans are trying to restart a hydro plant but the apes worry about humans coming near to city.

Few days ago i said that the price wl decreased - still is high there wl be some change decrease imminetly — they are coming near to arsenal bid.

His height is all he now has to offer and with this it relies on an element of luck in the ball coming near to him as he's not quick enough to readjust his body shape / position etc..

We are now coming near to the end of the drama.

«In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

is there a so call president that will be able to fix or even come near to bringing this issue on how we as people are into creating not only debt for ourselfs but debt for others?

Every time that he came near to reaching the summit, the gods would merely roll it back to the bottom so that he was never free from the work but never finished and he must always labour in the full knowledge of the futility of his work.

And let the priests also, that come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth upon them.»

It is a call to come near to God and be changed by him.

The Easter stories in the four Gospels, on the other hand, come nearer to doing this.

Do you also seek for the treasure which fails not, which endures, there where no moth comes near to devour and (where) no worm destroys.»

When God comes near to us, we no longer weep over the grave.

And it came to pass, when He came near to Bethphage (means House of Unripe Figs) and Bethany (means House of Many Figs).

Perhaps «rule» or, better, the active participle «ruling» would come nearest to the original, but constant reference to the «ruling of God» would be both clumsy and subject to the facetiousness of reading the genitive as a genitive of object!

While He could have chosen to reveal himself in any way, He decided to come near to us in all of our broken humanity.

In recent years, most of the more than two hundred colleges and universities in America have turned their attention to strengthening their «Catholic identity,» but relatively few come near to approximating the vision of Catholic higher education proposed by John Paul and Benedict.

God shares in the trouble and suffering of His nature and even suffers by His own actions at the hour when He comes near to destroying the work of His hands.

If He comes near to us again, this must be experienced as a real happening and not as a logical deduction from a set of basic assumptions.

We are children of the sun, Arm in arm together run, Round a ring we steady move: Our hearts will faithful prove, As the sun comes near to us, Near to us, near to us.

Isaiah 48:16: «Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, From the time it took place, I was there And now the Lord GOD has sent Me, and His Spirit.»

In spite of the fact that Karl Barth in the Commission on the Life and Work of Women at the Amsterdam Conference attempted to put the relation of women to the work of the Church on the theological basis of Adam's rib and Ephesians 5:23 («For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church» [R.S.V.]-RRB-, most of us still believe that Paul comes nearest to the mind of Christ in Galatians 3:28.

As it stands it comes near to being an anti-climax, and is saved from this only by the words of the unknown man, usually taken to be an angel (and this, incidentally, is the most difficult part of the story to accept as historical).

11 «If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

So far as we can tell today, there is no single pericope anywhere in the gospels, the present purpose of which is to preserve a historical reminiscence of the earthly Jesus, although there may be some which do in fact come near to doing so because a reminiscence, especially of an aspect of teaching such as a parable, could be used to serve the purpose of the Church or the evangelist.

None of your descendants, from generation to generation, who has a defect, may draw near to offer his God's food; for no one who has a defect may come near, no one who is blind, or lame, or has any perforations, or has a limb too long; no one who has a fractured foot, or a fractured hand, or is a hunchback, or has a cataract, or a defect of eye sight, or scurvy, or scabs, or crushed testicles — no one of the descendants of Aaron the priest, who has a defect, may come near to offer the Lord's sacrifices; since he has a defect, he may not come near to offer his God's food.

Here in communion with the brethren we come nearest to the Resurrection Body of Christ; and so Paul writes in the following Chapter 11 (a passage which has received far too little consideration) if this Lord's Supper were partaken of by all members of the community in a completely worthy manner, then the union with Jesus» Resurrection Body would be so effective in our own bodies that even now there would be no more sickness or death (1 Corinthians 1 1:28 - 30) a singularly bold assertion.

What Peter said to his Lord comes as close to bedrock as anything I know, and comes nearer to stating my bare belief than the more elaborate affirmations I make week after week.

In fact, in the statement by which Schweitzer comes nearest to hinting that Jesus discerned its presence, he uses the simile of the shadow: «It is present only as a cloud may be said to be present which throws its shadow upon the earth; its nearness, that is to say, is recognized by the paralysis of the Kingdom of Satan.

Ezekiel 18:5 - 6 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, and hath not... come near to a menstrous woman.

That we, the lost sinners, children away of the Kingdom of Father are now at hand with a great light (Isaiah 9:2), a wonderful surprise that is out of our thoughts, that is the Kingdom of God in which we can not enter but it comes nearer to us enabling us to jump in.

He says, «So I will come near to you for judgment.

There are certain ways of speaking about Jesus which imply, or even come near to stating, that Jesus did something to change the attitude of God to men, that somehow Jesus changed God's wrath into love, that somehow Jesus persuaded God to hold his hand and to pacify his anger to withhold his judgment of condemnation, that, to put it very crudely, Jesus by his sufferings and his death bought off God.

If we can get all the world in that frame of mind, we will come nearer to stopping these terrible wars than by any other method I know of.»

Sure have, but they most definitely do not come near to outweighing the horrible tolls religion has exacted on the population.

The exhortation of James to «come near to God and he will come near to you» would be but a cruel proclamation.

As your children grow older, do you come nearer to them, or do they drift away until conversation is often difficult and they practically become strangers?

It comes nearest to my own concerns.

Yet, this reminder that «women come nearer to fulfilling their God - given function in the home than anywhere else» still quickens the hearts of church - going Americans whose understanding of the world was formed by the domestic values associated with «the family pew» after World War II.1

To say that no one solution is a panacea is not to deny that some approaches to a problem come nearer to the center of the difficulty than others do.

B concludes the paragraph with these lines: Those who came nearest to doing this were, I think, theists, but they were not widely noticed or appreciated for this achievement; one sect of Hindus founded by Sri Jiva Goswami, Plato in his mature dialogues, the Socinians, Gustav Fechner the German psychologist (for his time in some ways the best of all), and Whitehead (ditto).

If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

C. Colpe, himself a Religionsgeschichtler of real standing, has investigated thoroughly all the proposed possibilities and reached the conclusion that this «Canaanite hypothesis» comes nearest to meeting the needs of the case, so far as our present knowledge goes, TWNT article, B. Das religionsgeschichtliche Problem, esp.

«Say to Aaron: «For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God.

Unless in consequence of a stupid insensibility this fact should some time deteriorate into a meaningless human conventionality, each subsequent generation will exhibit the same proportion of offense as the first; for there is no immediacy by the aid of which anyone could come any nearer to it.

The beagle's climb to the throne is due in part to the fact that it comes nearest to being an all - purpose dog, equally in demand as a pet in the home and as a show dog and sporting dog.

we offer champs league football but never come near to competing dortmund actually contend for the trophy.

Your baby every day comes nearer to meeting with you.

This may help to soften the pay cut they've taken, but it won't come near to providing interesting work to someone used to making country changing decisions.

«I leave you with the earnest hope that may we all come nearer to that other country whose «ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace».»

None of them come near to Tony Blair's achievement when he was Prime Minister of being seen as a centrist leader close to the outlook of the majority of voters.