Sentences with phrase «falling upon the ground»

The «passive intellect» receives the form like a shadow falling upon the ground.

In the parable, the seed in one case fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.

Not exact matches

prophet mohammad peace be upon him had a jew neighbor, and the jew used to put dirt in front of the prophet house all the time, one day our prophet didn't find any dirt, and he went to the jew house, he asked him what happend, and found out the jew was sick, and the jew fell on the ground crying for what he used to do to Mohammad, and announced his islam.

A fallen away Muslim told me, that the burqua clad woman will spit on the ground underneath their garb upon passing a «western» lady, no matter how she's dressed.

Would not he be a mere fool who, running at tournament with others, and falling in the best of the career, should lie weeping on the ground and afflicting himself with discourses upon his fall?

The disciples, struck with fear and illuminated with the sudden stream of light; looked at one another and fell face downwards upon the ground, worshipping thee the Master of all.

In modern times, the message has fallen upon the edge of the path, on the rocky ground, amongst the thorns and it is being destroyed.

An ancient reading in Luke heightened the trauma: «And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground» (Luke 22:44).

God's necessary immediate power is no less fundamental to the mutational relationship of one pattern of bodily organisation to another than it is to the relationship of one moment of time to another, or of a leaf to the branch or the ground upon which it falls.

Now, researchers say they have hit upon a better way to track falls in the area — using the same tools that monitor earthquakes to listen for the seismic disturbances rocks make as they impact the ground.

And the ice began to break, and fall, until the window itself stood clear, and the snow upon the ground had begun to sink and slurry and flow under the bright goldenness of a perfect awakening... her skin, her skin, from alabaster it reached to peach, rose in her cheeks, cherries on her lips.

One's a lighthearted story of a hunter while the other is one telling the grim tale of a fallen warrior, one that will eventually meet their own demise based upon the player's choices while the other is truly about grinding out the end - game loot before moving onto a «New Game +» playthrough.

There are very beautiful moments in the work, when the materials dictate their own nature and play a part in creating the image: when the paints become mottled and pooled, when the pastels layer upon each other in an unexpected way, when the tyvek is cut so much to become a lacy scrim as it falls to the ground, like shadows cast from a tree.

The higher the office holder, the longer the fall from power, and in this case it is pretty hard ground that Spitzer is landing upon.

Helmets designed for cycling, skateboarding or rollerblading will not provide the necessary protection from falls because they can not absorb enough energy upon impact when you hit the ground.