Sentences with phrase «for ordinary men»

Urban parks act as simple but socially vital safety valves for ordinary men and women to release some of the pressures of daily life in the city - especially for those who find themselves living in treeless informal settlements or featureless tower blocks.

It will be difficult for ordinary men to hold them.

I was a fair swimmer, 100 - yard freestyle and relays, but those were bad times for ordinary men because we were up against a beast named Johnny Weissmueller and one named Arne Borg.

For ordinary men it is an occasion of fear.

The Catholic Church rightly saw that the demands of Jesus were unreasonable and inappropriate for the ordinary man who must support a family and carry on the affairs of the world.

«1 What theologians have to show if they want to be heard is the biblical view that the world is unintelligible apart from Christ.2 The theological hang - up on the problem of the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith is irrelevant for the ordinary man whose goal is the understanding of the message of Christ and which task is theology's very purpose.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

The meaning of words, they say, is a matter of law for them and not a matter for the ordinary man.

Such application would only be on Point of Law or Error in Law and is enormously expensive for an ordinary man.

Covering everyday wearable, yet fashionable menswear for the ordinary man.

Not exact matches

The Christmas Truce idea is beloved by many, beyond football fans, for its hint that, beneath the horror, British and Germans were just ordinary men cast into the maelstrom of unprecedented bloodshed.

The result: Men with money can abuse ordinary people and face no repercussions for their actions, beyond a few payouts here and there.

Mr Chopra need to appologise to muslim community for saying that «Prophet Muhammad was an ordinary man».

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

The first man is in a debt of 10,000 talents which is the equivalent of 100 million silver drachmas - an impossible amount ever to pay off for an ordinary worker.

Ordinary faces belong to the great multitude: a young girl at Columbine high school; the man who used retirement funds to pay for a mission trip to Haiti to build a house; the corporation accountant who reported the manipulation of numbers; countless others.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

Problems in preaching the gospel today flow out of the necessity for relating the Christian story, the gospel, to the «ordinary knowledge» of the common man.

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

The efforts of those ordinary men and women eventually led to victory for our country and the ideals it sought — and continues to seek — to embody.

The gang kid who commits his life to God and goes on to lead others out of the gang... the prostitute who gives up the life and becomes a missionary... you and I who have given up the ordinary life for a life of service to God through serving man... these are the real miracles.

Instead, he looks to the «ordinary brave man's» active and ideological resistance to the state philosophers in order to discover for himself what progressive values are.

Like Matthew, Luke says «lost its taste» instead of Mark's «lost its saltness,» suggesting that the ordinary use of salt for seasoning is in mind; but instead of Matthew's «It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot» Luke has «It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away.»

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

(1:10,13), and «For while there is jealousy» and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

For example, I've been reading the Bible all my life, but just a couple of years ago, I discovered that Uriah was no ordinary soldier, but one of David's special forces, one of the «mighty men.»

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

Hartshorne challenges the critics of the argument to construct a more plausible semantics that will work not only for a criticism of Anselm's reasoning, but also for ordinary purposes of understanding possibility (Man's 301).7

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

For such a man to occupy a foremost place in history, and to continue to occupy it after nineteen centuries and more, is unexplainable on any ordinary grounds.

the Son of God called Jesus, even if only a man by ordinary generation, yet on account of His wisdom, is worthy to be called the Son of God; for all writers call God the Father of men and of gods.

(Mark 9: 24) Thus there exists indeed to the eye of man a dualism, since for him ordinary events veil God from him and he may perceive God only through a miracle.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.&raqFor I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.&raqfor itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

So, for example, in his well - known essay, «Our Calling,» Einar Billing, a Swedish Lutheran theologian of the early 20th century, wrote: «The more fully a Catholic Christian develops his nature, the more he becomes a stranger to ordinary life, the more he departs from the men and women who move therein.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

But if this is true of «ordinary» species, what duration may we not look for in the case of Man, that favored race which, by its intelligence, has succeeded in removing all danger of serious competition and even in attacking the causes of senescence at the root.

After the immemorial evil of parricide for which the wrong man is convicted, after the irradiation of the Russian soul with baneful modern ideas, Dostoevsky enshrines a transcendent moment of ordinary fellowship in kindness.

The ordinary man is more ignorant about science than is the philosopher, for the latter knows that changes are to be attributed to the «particular constitution of its [a body's] primary qualities» (E-I 179).

As the sciences have moved from one apparent success to another, and paved the way for the rapid advance of technology, the ordinary man has felt more and more confident that he understands the natural forces and processes with some degree of certainty.

Here in the midst of language about the holiness of God and the wonder of his kingdom is the prayer for bread — one of man's ordinary needs.

It would never be by any ordinary men but it would rather be by those on the tiptop of (Finance & Power) to pull such act either towards making immediate financial or political gains or for hiding their crimes by making another crime...

Finally, his humble - mindedness and his ascetic tendencies save him from the petty personal pretensions which so obstruct our ordinary social intercourse, and his purity gives us in him a clean man for a companion.

The Wagnerian ideal of erotic heroism inflames ordinary men and women with the desire to live as though such love were possible even for themselves; for myth does not represent some archaic glory but is written «in the eternal present.»

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

It is not an ordinary biblical term for sexual intercourse, which is usually described as a man «going in» to a woman or «lying with» her.

It seems to me that it is too complicated as it stands and for the ordinary «man in the pew» it needs to be broken down further.

To those who insisted that knowledge of Greek and Hebrew were indispensable for the interpretation of Scripture, John Goodwin and Samuel Richardson could reply that this might be granted if the original copies of Scripture were extant, but since they were not and since the existing texts could not be certified as free from the errors of the copyists, the scholars were as dependent as the ordinary man upon the gift of the Spirit for the proper interpretation of the Biblical text.

One great advantage of a lectureship was that it allowed men whose consciences were troubled by portions of the Prayer Book to escape the requirement that the prescribed services be read, for the ordinary worship was conducted by the parson and not by the lecturer.

So the company «knocked» the ordinary milks, claiming that «beta casein A1 may be a primary risk factor for heart disease in adult men, and also be involved in the progression of insulin - dependent diabetes in children».