Sentences with phrase «devoured many»

4And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

Study, especially study of the Bible, was a pleasure to him: «At first, in the monastery, I devoured the Bible.»

Al - Maeda sura 05: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Forbidden unto you (for food) are carrion and blood and swine - flesh, and that which hath been dedicated unto any other than Allah, and the strangled, and the dead through beating, and the dead through falling from a height, and that which hath been killed by (the goring of) horns, and the devoured of wild beasts, saving that which ye make lawful (by the death - stroke), and that which hath been immolated unto idols.

Admittedly it is bizarre to think of martyrs» bodies being regurgitated at the time of resurrection by the beasts that devoured them — but is it any more bizarre than birth, when compared to the more decorous view that finds babies under cabbage leaves?

As a kid, I devoured my New King James Precious Moments Bible and loved every illustration... except the one of Jacob and Rachel standing under a palm tree with hearts over their heads, because there was a boy in my Sunday school class named Jacob, and the thought of standing next to him under a palm tree with hearts over our heads made me blush.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

Rev 20:9 And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.

I devoured Weber, Tawney, Fanfani and others, as well as magazines such as

She said again that she was devoured with two unassuageable fevers, one for the holy communion, the other for suffering, humiliation, and annihilation.

She loved her little sippy cup and devoured food.

I snatched it up and devoured it in a weekend.

(CNN)- When it's not in the news for historic wildfires that have devoured hundreds of homes on its outskirts, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is nationally known as the home of the Air Force Academy and as the unofficial capital of evangelical Christianity.

CNN: In responses to Colorado Springs fire, a distinctly evangelical tone When it's not in the news for historic wildfires that have devoured hundreds of homes on its outskirts, Colorado Springs, Colorado, is nationally known as the home of the Air Force Academy and as the unofficial capital of evangelical Christianity.

Should the earth and all its resident populations be devoured this evening by a chain reaction of nuclear holocausts, must that too be in at least partial accord with God's aim at «universal intensity of satisfaction?»

Though he had been on a three - year pilgrimage, had «devoured» churches like a religious fanatic, his God was the art of an alien religion, and he was not at peace.

I've devoured all eleven books in short order — they are glorious.

The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan:: My two eldest children devoured this series and so I wanted to read it to see what was going on.

The LORD enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

In the mid-1960s, living on campus at a progressive / liberal American Baptist seminary while my dad was a student there, I devoured Tillich, Niebuhr, Kierkegaard, and Barth and looked stuff up in Kittel, or at the very least the Greek lexicon, the way other kids might look stuff up in Webster's.

And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it.

Life is a protean fountain of delight, in need of enmity, dying, and martyrdom, devoured only by a disgust which must be overcome in the pursuit and creation of its own immediate goodness (TSZ 120f.).

I have ever since devoured Von Rad, who showed us that the practice of biblical faith is first of all recital.

Look — We're all done with keeping up with the Kardashians or whatever flash of skin is being flaunted on red carpets — when there are little girls being devoured on bare concrete floors and we will keep company with Jesus and be the ones who do something about the things that breaks His heart.

A truly wonderful sense of the appropriate has guided the inventors of the most terrifying weapons to choose names that evoke ultimate violence in the most effective way: names taken from the direst divinities in Greek mythology, like Titan, Poseidon, and Saturn, the god who devoured his own children.

(O'Connor reportedly devoured Catcher in the Rye in one sitting.)

involuntarily reëchoed by all of us, was over in three seconds; and then I know not what happened till I returned to my senses, when I found myself and companions lying down on the ground as if prepared to be devoured by our enemy, the sovereign of the forest.

And the unhappy man, not daring to go out lest he should be the prey of the beast, not daring to jump to the bottom lest he should be devoured by the dragon, clings to the branches of a wild bush which grows out of one of the cracks of the well.

After Cole published his first study on loneliness in 2007, he started to get notes from «lonely people being devoured by disease and suffering, both personal and somatic,» he says.

Being devoured is not good!

Underestimating how terribly deep other people's needs can be, they enter ministry with an insufficient sense of personal boundaries, and are devoured by the voracious appetites of people in need.

The Herods, and the Roman Church, devoured their brightest lights, which brought about their end.

«Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it had ten horns.»

Third World and black women have begun to make this point with increasing power and clarity, and we black men had better listen to them or we will be devoured by the revolutions that they are making.

I've long been interested in the life and writings of Julian of Norwich, and Amy Frykholm brings her world to life in this lively and accessible volume, which I devoured in a matter of hours.

He devoured sci - fi books as a child, prompting the nickname «Child Genius», though this made him somewhat of a loner and a target for bullies.

During the latter years of his interment he devoured theology books and pondered the problem of suffering and evil.

So, to avoid being devoured, musicians seek to manipulate tastes and needs.

Luther put it strongly in his 1527 treatise, This Is My Body: «To give a simple illustration of what takes place in this eating: it is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful a food that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep.

In the 1950s, as books from Carl Rogers came on the scene, serious - minded pastors and theological students devoured his Client - Centered Therapy and learned from it some crucial lessons.

America is awash in DuckTales nostalgia because pop culture is an ouroboros that will not be satiated until it's devoured itself.

And then I disappeared for 24 - hours while I devoured it.

After a long wait, she finally released a new novel and I pretty much devoured it in a weekend.

He lent Tyranowski a manual of prayer commonly used in seminaries at that time, Ascetical and Mystical Theology by Adolphe Tanqueray, which Tyranowski devoured, coming back for more.

You may end up with your soul devoured and lost forever.

Jesus spoke woe unto those is his day who devoured widows houses.

I devoured the first season on Hulu (thanks to Tunnel Bear) while Brian was out of town for a few weeks in July.

During successive careers as a legislative analyst, corporate manager, homeschooling parent, and, finally, Catholic - school teacher, I devoured Diane Ravitch's learned critiques of the educational establishment.

They have devoured her house and now they are taking her life as well.

This is how they «devoured the estates of widows.»