Sentences with phrase «falls upon the man»

Rev 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, [every stone] about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

In dreams, in visions of the night, when deepest sleep falls upon men, while they sleep on their beds, God makes them listen, and his correction strikes them with terror.

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The rythms of the liturgy fall upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeneMan in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeneman is raised to life in His likeness.

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

If David's psalms give individuals language for emotions and obligations and joys and predicaments predicated upon the Fall of Man and the Law, then Homer's poem is of the other eternity.

In a highly metaphorical and powerful statement he declared: «It is now excruciatingly clear that Christ can not be a light that lights every man coming into the world, if he is not also the light that falls upon the world into which every man comes.

The book shows a man upon whom the prophetic mantle fell against his wishes.

The radical Christian, who is in quest of a total redemption, must repudiate every religious promise resting upon a perpetuation of man's fallen state, and recognize in the orthodox image of the crucified Christ an image of the victory of that Satan who would bind man to a broken and shrunken condition.

Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look upon sin as an enveloping state of evil resulting from Adam's fall and corrupting man's whole being.

Whenever we come upon these matters in secular writers, let that admirable light of truth shining in them teach us that the mind of man, though fallen and perverted from its wholeness, is nevertheless clothed and ornamented with God's excellent gifts.18

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

6 not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up [with pride] and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil.

Men are urged to repent, believe, and obey God in order to inherit the bliss of the Kingdom to come and to avoid the wrath to fall upon the disobedient.

But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and won the consideration of all who now had turned their attention to him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of the philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life in future upon that of Apollonius.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

When the tower of Siloam fell and killed eighteen persons, the still popular theodicy of early Hebraism marked them out as especially wicked, but Jesus protested: «Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

A self face to face with Christ is a self potentiated by the prodigious concession of God, potentiated by the prodigious emphasis which falls upon it for the fact that God also for the sake of this self let Himself to be born, became man, suffered, died.

In the beginning Man invented god and ignorance and intolerance fell upon humanity.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

This falling back upon the divine, together with the loss of confidence in man himself, was called the apocalyptic hope.

But they had a bunch of bright spots this Fall and as the youngest group in the Men's League they have a ton to build upon..

«From the time that a man brushes his teeth in the morning with a Bakelite - handled brush until the moment when he removes his last cigarette from a Bakelite holder, extinguishes it in a Bakelite ashtray and falls back upon a Bakelite bed, all that he touches, sees, uses will be made of this material of a thousand purposes,» Time magazine enthused in 1924 in an issue that sported Baekeland on the cover.

After all, as Isaac Newton pointed out in his Principia, the notion «that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.»

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In a moving essay for the New York Times Modern Love column, Amy a best - selling author of childrens books and a. And she takes it upon herself to create a poignant dating profile for her husband, whom she says is an easy man to fall in love with.

The modern man, in all his craziness, has hit upon a new addiction that of falling for sugar mamas.

There's a certain charm to one day stumbling upon the man of your dreams in the supermarket, striking up a conversation at the deli counter before falling in love and living happily ever after.

She just completed the independent digital short film, Black Water, about a successful middle - aged man whose life falls apart, which has been invited to the Hawaii Film Festival upon completion.

During an stumble upon with Psycho - Man, Sue Storm fell sufferer to her personal darkish feelings and remodeled into the villainess Malice.

When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.

Spied upon, manipulated, and denied any sort of dimension beyond her relationship to the men who can provide meaningful exchange for her services as a female, she's a conglomeration of stereotypes we attribute as shorthand for the «fallen woman.»

Image A Sound A - Extras B «Arrival,» «The Chimes of Big Ben,» «A, B, and C,» «Free for All,» «The Schizoid Man,» «The General,» «Many Happy Returns,» «Dance of the Dead,» «Checkmate,» «Hammer into Anvil,» «It's Your Funeral,» «A Change of Mind,» «Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling,» «Living in Harmony,» «The Girl Who Was Death,» «Once Upon a Time,» «Fall Out»

Showing neither man nor fallen doe, the film arrestingly impresses upon us the gravity of what has happened.

She wanted desperately to know which of these two men her interest should fall upon.

Calamity falls upon her family, and Maisie is drawn into Miss Grange's mystery, even as two young men begin to vie for her affection.

Upon getting them, the screen throws everything out of the window and turns everything into a 3D - pixelated mish - mash showing Pac - Man eating ghosts from all angles before falling back down to the stage.

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country; and they being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.