Not exact matches
Gothard's teachings involve rules
upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright
eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of
things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.
It is said of a man who stands dizzily
upon a high place, that all
things run together before his
eyes.
See, for instance,
Things Hidden, 235 - 236: «In effect, this sacrificial concept of divinity must «die», and with it the whole apparatus of historical Christianity, for the Gospels to be able to rise again in our midst, not looking like a corpse that we have exhumed, but revealed as the newest, finest, liveliest and truest
thing that we have ever set
eyes upon.»
But, when we forget about what it between us, and focus instead on Who is Above Us — as Ephesians 2:13 - 17 encourages us to do — when we focus not on ourselves, but turn our
eyes upon him, — all of these other
things just fade into the background and it is then that we can live in peace with each other.
But when you experience the new birth, and have your
eyes opend to what Jesus was really trying to bring mankind, you'll find this precious
thing called the Kingdom of King (the rule and reign of God
upon men's heart)... Not religion!!
We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her
eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former
things will have passed away, and He that sits
upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all
things new.»
It is one
thing to know that He loves you and that He hears your prayers, but it is quite another to know that His
eyes are
upon you.
The box imprisons Jack within a view that depends almost exclusively on the perception of the
eye and the ear and
upon things that can be spoken.
Immediately
upon the green flag dropping, they will be nearly a half lap behind the leader and mired in traffic, especially problematic on a tightly confined track where
things happen in the blink of an
eye and it is easy to be swept into an incident not of your own doing.
Even in this debate Republicans don't see
eye to
eye; but there is one
thing they agree
upon: the «47 % gaffe» hasn't helped Romney's chances.
Phones serve as many of our alarm clocks, making them one of, if not the first
thing we touch
upon opening our
eyes in the morning.
The second my
eyes fell
upon these, they were in my cart and on my doorstep — and they are v high on my «
Things I Love» list.
Chiwetel Ejiofor brings his usual gravity to bear as an identifiably African John the Baptist, a choice that might seem risky were we in less sensitive hands, while Tahar Rahim, as Judas, seizes
upon the closest
thing here to a character arc, boyish enthusiasm shading into sad -
eyed betrayal.
In Mary Shelley «s classic novel, Victor Frankenstein is horrified the first time he looks
upon his creation because the
thing is flat - out hideous: eight feet tall, with watery
eyes, black lips, and translucent yellow skin.
The rumor we've all heard for months was finally confirmed this morning, revealed in a press release that may well be the most glorious
thing that Limited Paper has ever laid
eyes upon.
There are many products available that hide your cat's litter tray so that it is not the first
thing that guests
eyes alight
upon when they enter your room.
When Dynasty Warriors 6 made a lot of changes to the series, mostly for the worse in my
eyes, Tecmo - Koei did the right
thing — they returned to the formula from the earlier games and built
upon it with better graphics, new gameplay elements and the best re-telling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms so far — while retaining all that made Dynasty Warriors a series that I enjoy.
Heck, I've even heard that Aliens: Colonial Marines is downright average after the patches, but the damage in the public mind's
eye was done
upon the initial release, and the only
thing SEGA earned was the trepidation of a wary consumer.
The drawings from the Vision Cloud series possess a personal note as they are based
upon Franziska Furter's own observations from «her Cloud ``: Visual adjustments from her daily life seen out of the corner of her
eye, for example of
things remembered, of
things vanishing, of speed or mist.
These wood objects, which bear ink images silk - screened
upon them that are identical to the ones on the actual boxes, so closely resemble the real
thing that they defy the
eye's ability to distinguish the real from the represented.