Sentences with phrase «gives illustrations of»

In giving counsel on prayer, after Jesus had told his disciples: «Whenever you pray, say, Father, let your name be sanctified», he then proceeded to give an illustration of one who asked a «friend» at midnight for three loaves of bread.

After giving us his illustration of prayer, Jesus concludes his general advice to persevere in prayer with this promise (cited above in part): «If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!»

Bob, you say::: I would think you would want to display a more compassionate and understanding disposition than you display here::::::: Bob, time may not permit you to do it, but could you give me an illustration of my uncompassionate disposition, and then how you would handle it.

fishon — «Bob, you say::: I would think you would want to display a more compassionate and understanding disposition than you display here::::::: Bob, time may not permit you to do it, but could you give me an illustration of my uncompassionate disposition, and then how you would handle it.»

Otis Rice, who suggested this approach, gave these illustrations of how it might be put: «Now what can we find in the situation?»

However, this statement flows out of your belief that sin is not a big deal to God and yet, apparently this sin of pagan death and blood is a big deal to God, enough for God to give us an illustration of how much he hates it by shedding his own son's blood.

Simon Callow gave this illustration of Ivory's on - set manner: ««That was all right,» he said once, after a particularly difficult scene in A Room with a View.

'' He gives the illustration of Scandinavian international locations, exactly where officials «will be thrown from workplace for what is going to be considered extremely minimum abuses.

A comparison of the two gives an illustration of the extraordinary returns that can be provided by dividend compounding.

This breaks up its text with illustrations; provides examples and quotes from users; and feels very practical — it gives the court fees payable direct on the site and it gives an illustration of the form that needs to be completed to issue proceedings.

Give illustrations of how your strengths are useful, and pick weaknesses that are moderate and won't impact the work environment — or, better yet, that are quiet strengths such as «I can't pass a bookstore without going in.»

Not exact matches

Paul, I believe gives a very good illustration of deeper when he says, ``... for I have LEARNED [caps mine] to be content whatever the circumstance....»

How can it move us to be told that Jesus gave his body as a feast «truly from heaven come down,» and then to be treated to a tableau vivant showing the children of Israel in the desert, in the style, colors and postures of bad Sunday school illustrations, with manna falling from the sky in the form of bits of fluttering paper?

It seems to us these examples that we gave were illustrations of what were really egregious targeting of really valuable programs to the poorest and most vulnerable people in America.»

But the specific picture / illustration given them to imitate is not one of authority and leadership, but of giving and sacrifice.

The fate of Greer and Tatchell gives a clear illustration of the change.

Luther put it strongly in his 1527 treatise, This Is My Body: «To give a simple illustration of what takes place in this eating: it is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful a food that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep.

Yorck gives by way of illustration a re-interpretation of the doctrines of original sin and the atonement.

Here appears one of the major paradoxes of the spiritual life, of which the Bible gives vivid illustration — the more self - respect men achieve, the more they are plunged into self - depreciation.

DCBuck gives a prime illustration of this point.

But like you say — if most of an author's ideas and content are being pulled from the ideas of authors in other books, it is only right and fair to give them more crthan two footnotes especially if content, argument structure and illustrations are similar (credit: Jeremy Myers).

If I were to grant that all principles of explanation are capable of illustration in someone's given sometime, and were allowed to locate the principle of interaction in the given of God, I could follow this principle.

It must suffice to give several illustrations of situations to which the question of appropriate conduct in a democracy of worth is relevant.

We designate this with a word borrowed from the technical lexicon of twentieth century mathematics: functoriality.10 We shall give one brief elementary technical illustration, but we emphasize that our interest here is only with broad concepts.

Daniel gives us a powerful illustration of this.

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

The Catholic church is as Jesus gave in an illustration of «Lazarus and the Rich man», whereby Lazarus pictured the common people or am - haarets (Hebrew meaning «people of the land») and the rich man pictured the Jewish religious leaders who fed the Lazarus class spiritual «crumbs».

The problem is extremely complex, but a few illustrations will give a clear indication of the potential destruction of land, a trend that directly compounds the problem of poverty.

This becomes quite clear in the case of a most interesting illustration which Niebuhr gives of the problem of the moral life.

First, illustrations and references that reflect the composition of the community to whom the sermon is given say to that community, «You are important.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

A simple illustration for this might be the historical development of a given human culture.

Perhaps more dramatic illustrations are found in hospital wards where a visitor's warm «hello» turns on the light, opens the shutters, straightens the linens, and brightens the faces; or in rural America where a major business transaction is sealed by one man giving his word to another; or in the quiet guidance of Anne Sullivan who with the one word «water» brought Helen Keller into the world of human experience; or in the nation - shaping speeches of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.

For illustration of this one need only read the daily newspapers and mark the space given to human rights news such as Pinochet's detention and alleged violations of rights around the world.

, or trying to be more «relevant» by speaking to people's needs, or mask that we preaching a text by giving lots of illustrations, stories, and images?

I do so in order to give some specific illustrations of how visionary reason might respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.

It makes clear the rigorous nature of Zen training, and gives many apt illustrations from Zen literature.

I now have to give some concrete illustrations of these fruits of the spiritual tree.

Jesus gave a clear illustration of the two types of people in this word and who gets into paradise.

Or, to take a much better illustration for our purposes, one may accept as true the story of man's creation and fall, as found in Gen. 1 - 3, without supposing for a moment that those chapters give us an accurate account of an actual happening.

Here is another illustration of the way in which Christian faith, with its total giving of self to one's Lord, is linked with the whole context of the Christian life itself.

«There is no situation to which the application of Christian love would not be both relevant and effective,» said the preacher, but he gave no illustrations.

Kuhn's volume gave historical illustrations of the paradigm - dependence of observations.

I usually introduce the PAC approach in counseling or growth group sessions by diagramming it on a sheet of paper and giving an illustration or two of the times I let my own Parent and Child take over unconstructively.

I won't recommend frankenmon — the program that spits out a three point sermon, complete with illustrations, and stories, when one gives it a couple of verses, and a topic (given John 12:20 - 28 as the lead pericope, the software can create a three point sermon that advocates anti-natalism)-- under any circumstances.

However, given that the Bible speaks to a message, the messenger (God's prophets) may be off on a description but get the gist of the illustration they are trying to make while staying on message.

Interestingly, the two illustrations the authors give of this — individualism and a dualistic view of human nature — come from the Enlightenment (cf 31 - 43).

An excellent gift for families or anyone interested in the holiday from its historical perspective, Giving Thanks shares the story of the holiday from the famous living history museum, complete with myriad illustrations, and favorite dishes from all over the United States.

One of the most notable of these Atlanta barbecues was that given to 1,000 commercial travelers — an al fresco barbecue, as shown in the illustration below, and one that passed off without a hitch.

Yet the illustrations show that in 1922, there were already people giving their children too many sweets, sodas, etc., and that a lower - meat diet with plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and real fats like butter and whole dairy was encouraged as being best.