Sentences with phrase «doing obeisance»

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Barth states: «Genuine faith is a void, an obeisance before that which we can never be, or do, or possess; it is devotion to him who can never become the world or man, save in the dissolution and redemption and resurrection of everything we here and now call world and man.

What would be the purpose of not claiming such a ti.tle in one's «human» lifetime but demanding obeisance with grave punishments if one does not believe it to be true once he dies?

The most loving thing a parent can do is to let its child go freely and in a timely manner, rather than to hang on, demanding obeisance, attention, obedience and such throughout that child's life.