Sentences with phrase «for utterance»

Provided the basis for any utterance is capable of being supported in the evidence, truth and fair comment is ever a defence.

R to E... When I am away from you - a crowd of things press on me for utterance..

I like this one because it has that French sound to it — the inflections roll off of the tongue like was made for utterance.

The fact that it originates in an historical event provides the credentials for its utterance on each specific occasion.

It is that this event is the emergence into full operation of that very Word which in past history struggled for utterance.

(I say this in spite of the monistic utterances of many mind - cure writers; for these utterances are really inconsistent with their attitude towards disease, and can easily be shown not to be logically involved in the experiences of union with a higher Presence with which they connect themselves.

Kim Jong - un has two audiences for his utterances.

Nelson apologized to the apex court for his utterances claiming he was under the influence of a strange disease known in the local parlance as «kpokpogbligbli.»

George maintained that Wike must tender an unreserved apology to the Yoruba people for his utterances against the race.

Not exact matches

It was a delicate moment for Carney, who's every utterance has been pounced upon and poured over in the British press since he publically accepted the position last year.

For parents, in the dashboard, you can view utterances.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties upon the air.

The enthusiasm with which the Bible was read, and its sublime utterances greeted, by those to whom they came for the first time in their own tongue, as something entirely fresh, set free spiritual energy in creative ways.

Calvin, for whom Job is a vehicle for communicating the transcendence and inscrutability of God, cites some of Eliphaz's utterances as if they were Job's, assuming, as did other Jewish and Christian writers, that all Scripture delivers the same message, irrespective of the speaker.

In those two words we give the reason for our longing for the most expensive language and images we can create, for we know this child's glory calls forth every possible beauty of utterance, image, art and song.

Whoever talks in this questioning vein (and even if he say it amid groans, the utterance is the same), should be on his guard, for he scarcely knows by what spirit he is speaking.

Well did Kant, in one of his best utterances, declare his awe for the starry» skies, together with the ethical principles by which we, and any other comparably thoughtful animals, should live.

There is also at least a general analogy between judgments of falsity directed towards utterances and disappointment of expectations for natural signs.

No intelligent man, however, accepts the latter description as adequate, for music has a right to be understood in terms of its noblest utterance.

Proper speech has a rhythmic quality, a pattern of ebb and flow, of refreshing pauses to consolidate ideas, to reflect on what has been said, and to prepare well for the next utterances.

Even Lafcadio Hearn, far away from religion though he was, said, «I think, all jesting aside, could I create something I felt to be sublime, I should feel also that the Unknowable had selected me for a mouthpiece, for a medium of utterance... and I should know the pride of a prophet who has seen the face of God.»

In the first century, Clement referred to the scriptures as the «true utterances of the Holy Spirit» (1 Clement 1:45); in the second, Athenagoras argued that «God moved the mouths of the prophets as if they were musical instruments» (A Plea For the Christians), and Augustine said that «the authors of holy Scripture were totally free from error» (Letter 82.3).

There will be more to be said about this pregnant utterance, but for the moment it is the term «covenant» that concerns us.

Pantheistic tendencies were seen as early as the third century, for instance in some of the utterances of Bayazid of Bistam (died 261; AD.

With the prophetic utterance ringing in their ears, «There shall yet be more light,» the Pilgrims sailed for England, where, after abandoning the unseaworthy Speedwell, 101 of them crowded aboard the Mayflower and sailed for America.

Such performative utterances may still suffer from infelicities, but obviously they have implications for behavior in the world.

Such utterances may also express attitudes, which include being for or against someone or something.

These exist as a basis for his performative utterance.

Except for a few utterances, mainly those of Hosea, which may well relate to temporary conditions rather than to the monarchy per se, the prophets accept the kings as legitimate officials supreme in their sphere.

To claim direct communication from God as the basis for prophetic utterance against these traditions could mean being at least threatened, perhaps silenced, or even excommunicated.

For romanticism myth was an attempt to interpret the Symbol, which was considered to be by itself unutterable, the wordless utterance about existence which preceded the myth (so especially J. J. Bachofen).

It is just here that we are confronted with the — in the best sense of the word — simple desire for truth on the part of our hearers, and nothing is so damaging to the reputation of the theologian as when his utterances produce the effect of parrot - cries which have ceased to be relevant to the hearer's grasp of truth or reality, and therefore so utterly irrelevant to his daily life.

We turned first to mysticism for an answer, and found that although mysticism is entirely willing to corroborate religion, it is too private (and also too various) in its utterances to be able to claim a universal authority.

Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally — these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.

Early in Faith and Order inquiries it became apparent that formal comparative examination of the confessional and other utterances of the churches was not adequate for a responsible understanding either of what these churches affirmed in common or asserted in difference.

In a second proposition it is possible to state how the imagination, immersed in the Pauline substance and peculiar style, works to prepare the preacher for more lively and fuller utterance of the writer's intention.

Everything depends upon how this man stands related to the utterance of the augurs which is in one way or another decisive for his life.

As is so often the case in Shakespeare, the irony is doubled: Shylock gives utterance to an impassioned plea for the common humanity in all men even as he is hardening his heart to exact a terrible vengeance; Portia eloquently extols the virtue of mercy in the hearts of kings and seems promptly to forget her own speech when she comes to exercise power herself.

We have had occasion to refer to the poetry of the Old Testament, for it appears mixed in with the history, and many of the most vivid prophetic utterances are poems.

The utterances against the Holy Spirit happened on two occasions, but my tirades against God the Father and God the Son happened on many occasions, and sometimes for really stupid and childish reasons.

What is important is the recognition that for Israel, power and solidarity are held together, and that both are crucial for Israel's normative utterance about Yahweh.»

Have we been wrong for well over two thousand years now in assuming that the book of Amos or of Jeremiah reflects the mind, personality, and utterance of the prophet Amos, the prophet Jeremiah?

Responsibility for the original, basic — oral — form of the present prophetic writings came to be fixed upon these disciples who cherished, preserved, and «edited» the utterances of the master, not only during the prophet's lifetime, but for an extended period of time after his death.

So it is not just that to be is to be known, but also that to be significant (as an utterance) or possible (as the extralinguistic referent of an utterance) is to be so for some conceivable knower.

In the great hymns and spirituals of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as in «There is a balm in Gilead / to make the wounded whole,» and «Swing low, sweet chariot, / comin» for to carry me home,» he finds «a directness and a fervor of utterance and humility which involves man's nobility and, to me, a spark of divinity.»

Anything that might cause «ill - feeling» among the different races is reason for finding an utterance or object «undesirable.»

Texts are treated as living, breathing polyphonic utterances, not as silent receptacles for theological ideas, lessons, or propositions.

In Buchler's system, a principle of ontological parity is a commitment which pervades the analyses in both the general ontology and the more specific metaphysics of what Buchler calls human utterance.1 For Buchler, that no one of three modes of human judgment is any more of a judgment than any other is also an exemplification of the more general principle of ontological parity.

This is a potentially misleading statement — for his metaphysics of the human - self - in - process encompasses more than even what Buchler means by utterance (or judgement).