And the great composer Carter Burwell's score integrates a number of Protestant hymns, including «Leaning On
the Everlasting Arms,» which «True Grit» uses so beautifully it nearly steals it away from its most memorable appearance in the classic Gothic thriller «The Night of the Hunter.»
Though religion comes muted in True Grit, the film clearly aligns Mattie's thirst for justice with her belief in God, something underscored by Mattie's quoting of scripture but also by Carter Burwell's music, which borrows heavily from the traditional American hymn «Leaning On
The Everlasting Arms.»
The final shot is the film's altarpiece: a weightless camera glides around the Toller and Mary in their rapturous embrace, as the emphatic sounds of the choir singing «Leaning on
the Everlasting Arms» reverberate.
The climax is a crazy epiphany of cleansing sin: Toller donning a vest of barbed - wire thorns, strapping on his bomb, all set to the rapturous hymn «Leaning on
the Everlasting Arms,» and then a cut to black that echoes the final moment of «The Sopranos.»
He had a brief affair with his well - meaning assistant Esther (Victoria Hill, «December Boys») but now keeps her at arm's length before devastating her with a cruel verbal kiss - off; Schrader at least grants the character the grace of performing a lovely rendition of «Leaning on
the Everlasting Arms» over the film's denouement.
Moses expressed this in his blessing of the people of Israel: «Underneath are
the everlasting arms» (Deut.
One lives dependently, held in
the everlasting arms, arms that do not crush or smash or smother, but that hold and comfort.
And the thought occurred to me, «Gosh, I struggled with myself on these occasions and had I heard such a sermon as we heard today and thought of
the everlasting arms, which is really what he was saying, it might have made it easier for me then.»
But when Miss Iris DeMent begins to sing, «Leaning on
the Everlasting Arms,» as Mattie walks into the sunset, all is lost.
And underneath are
the everlasting arms.
The one thing all Christian churches have in common is God and Christ and
the everlasting arms, which is what he was talking about.
Only as he knows that «underneath are
the everlasting arms» and «perfect love casteth out fear» can he really find rest for his soul.
The Suffering Servant exemplifies God's ultimate concern for humankind, giving the assurance that underneath all of us are
the everlasting arms.
... You preached once on the «
Everlasting Arms.»
My, how we all hate to let go and be plunged under the water and cast ourselves adrift into
the everlasting arms of God's grace — particularly we Western materialistic types who think we have earned or deserve everything that we have.
«On
everlasting arms under, the LORD carried Israel out» — through «THREE DAYS THICK DARKNESS» OF HIS SALVATION.
At times, we all must fall back on someone's
everlasting arms, though those parental arms may be pushing us out into life even as they embrace us.
If your religious beliefs and experiences let you know the reality of «leaning on
the everlasting arms,» you have an invaluable strength for crisis.
Not exact matches
And in an instant of time, my soul seemed awake in and with God, and surrounded by the
arms of
everlasting love.
Because of the
everlasting parasite - host
arms race, CRISPR - Cas has rapidly evolved through horizontal transfer of complete loci or individual modules, resulting in extreme structural and functional diversity.
I need your
arms to hold me all through the day and night I need your smile to guide me to the
everlasting light I need your lips to kiss me whenever I am cold I need your eyes to see me young when I am growing old I... read more
The movie is a brilliant call to
arms against the «cultural genocide» perpetrated by the purveyors of the superficial and social media terrorists, in search of ego enhancement and the
everlasting buck.
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Everlasting July 10, 2018 John Douglas may be a well - trained political assassin, but he has met his match in the woman he once called a friend.