Sentences with phrase «following tradition leading»

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Where following Jesus leads them to break with that tradition, they break.

Graham spent his career leading revivals around the globe, following a long tradition of evangelists who have traveled far and wide to urge sinners to accept Christ.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

This is why it is always wise to responds to such people with as much grace and dignity as you can muster, for your response to them in this way might be just the thing that helps them see that it is okay to question tradition and follow the Spirit's leading away from institutional religion.

I think a major problem with many churches nowadays is that they are so stuck in their ways that they fail to even desire to start thinking about the Bible with as much objectivity as they can muster — such an approach might lead them down a path that doesn't follow age - old traditions.

Last year, New York rose to the challenge, and the rest of the nation ought to follow our lead and carry on this great American tradition.

Last year, though, the failure led to much more partisan finger - pointing as each side was upset about changing a budget - voting tradition that had been followed for decades.

«I think she'll follow in the tradition of Mike Bloomberg and, of all the candidates, I think she has the most experience and the best philosophy to lead New York in these difficult times,» he said.

«Our collaboration with internationally leading groups within the field of spin transport in insulators follows a long tradition, especially in the Collaborative Research Center Spin - X, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

«Our Thanksgiving Day tradition (besides enjoying the meal) always includes exercise: We all go for a hike in the morning, followed by a stretching session, usually led by my daughter [fitness blogger and author] Katie, and then after the meal we put on loud music and dance around the house, inside and out!

There are plenty of talented components to this cast, and most every one of them has his or her time to shine, even such much too briefly present forces as episodes 1's Martin Sheen - who nails both Irish - American accent and depth of the good - hearted slaver who comes to find flaws in the traditions he has had to follow - and episode 3's Richard Jenkin, who effectively despicable in his audacious portrayal of a despicable radical racist who is as willing to die as he is to kill to preserve his questionable sense of order - and plenty of other people in between, from the compelling Dennis Haysbert to the charming Danny Glover, so you know that it's saying something to proclaim that leading lady Halle Berry is this series» strongest performance, delivering on powerful layers and emotional range in her engrossing portrayal of a mulatto who is trapped in society by her mixed race, and will face many unbearable hardships that will test her innocence and humanity.

Featuring a memorable lead performance from Guy Pearce and strong support from Robert Pattinson the film follows in a long tradition of Antipodean sagas involving social decay and dog - eat - dog.

Her readings in Theosophy lead her to Tibetan Buddhism, and during the 1960s and 1970s, von Wiegand followed a course of spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism, traveling to India and Tibet, where she even had an audience with the Dalai Lama.

The work nonetheless leads into the following two sections, the Pavilions of Traditions and of Shamans, which accurately point to an increasing sense of doubt across some quarters of the Western world as to whether the promise of modernity and the progress of Enlightenment have resulted in a step forward for humankind.

Eva follows the legacy of modernist sculptural tradition, in the line of leading female artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Eva Hesse.

Immediately following the Class of 2014's commencement ceremony we rallied together to show support for The Cooper Union's strong and unique identity as a tuition free institution for the study of architecture, art and engineering; and to call attention to the fiscal mismanagement and lack of accountability on the part of The Cooper Union Trustees, leading to the erosion of a 150 - year old tradition of free tuition made possible by philanthropist Peter Cooper.

While different in scale, Slaw.ca follows in the same spirit and tradition that led to the creation of Quicklaw.