Sentences with phrase «great oracle»

I must turn to the great oracle and brain of the modern world, Google and Wikipedia, even to refresh my memory of things I have actually studied and know fairly well, and to go beyond them to textbooks, also written by «authorities», or the literature when the first two fail or appear likely to be unsound or I really need to see the results themselves to judge.

Based on what great oracle?

Or as that great oracle of my youth, Dr. Seuss, once said, «Look at me!

The great oracle of English conservatism, Charles Moore, once pronounced Slumdog Millionaire the Islamic breakthrough movie, in the same way Four Weddings and a Funeral was the breakthrough movie for gays.

Not exact matches

However all this may be, even if we were obliged to qualify the belief that in the opening oracles of the Book of Amos we actually see Israel's monotheism taking its nascent form right under our eyes, yet at least the passage reveals the sort of thinking that certainly at some time led to Israel's great discovery.

And, indeed, in further oracles of his book Amos introduces some nameless nation of his age in a role of divine judgment that implies the Lord's dominion far out also into the midst of the great powers of the time.

In any event, Hezekiah spreads the written threats of the Assyrians before the LORD in the temple with fervent prayer, Isaiah utters a defiant oracle of victory, a great disaster befalls the Assyrian army, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and Jerusalem is saved.

The divinity of God is well on display at Christmas in most creche scenes: the tiny oracle of God, raising a finger from the manger as if to pronounce great wisdom.

And that righteousness was interpreted, in such great figures as Jeremiah, Hosea, and the two or three men whose oracles have been put together in the Old Testament book we call Isaiah, as resting back upon and expressing the divine chesed — the faithful loving - mercy of Jahweh not only for his own people but for all the peoples of the earth.

But in the power battles which had been raging for some centuries, the contentions were common enough: «The Church's authority is greater than the authority of Scripture... the decretals of the Roman Church have to be added to Scripture... in the New Law the Pope's judgment is the oracle of God.»

Of a vicar of Newcastle, it is reported that «his known abilities in resolving cases of conscience drew after him a great many good people, not only of his own flock but from remoter distances, who resorted to him as to a common oracle, and commonly went away from him entirely satisfied in his wise and judicious resolutions.»

Croesus, king of Lydia, consulted the oracle at Delphi and was advised, «if King Croesus should cross the Halys river, a great empire would be destroyed».

Art Oracles by Katya Tylevich and illustrated by Mikkel Sommer, is the first pack of oracle cards to offer daily mantras from some of the world's greatest artists.

For the less secure a judge's authority — and judicial authority was far less secure then than it is in the United States today — the greater his need to represent himself as merely an oracle of the law.

You almost never meet with the a judge to discuss a proposed disposition; the judge plays the role of the great Wizard of Oz, remaining hidden from view, appearing only while bedecked in his robe, in open court, the very oracle of justice itself.