Sentences with phrase «greatest act of»

Just as the dispossession of this land's first peoples is this nation's greatest tragedy; their survival its greatest act of heroism; reconciliation, in all its forms, is our greatest opportunity for redemption.

Crafting the perfect resume is perhaps the greatest act of marketing: marketing yourself.

One of her earlier notebooks reveal telling mantras, such as, «Making art is the greatest act of all,» «Ideas are the most powerful thing in the world,» and the oxymoronic «Win first don't last,» and, «Win last don't care.»

Lest anyone think that acts of deception regarding Common Core have come only from only one side of the political aisle or from only state departments of education, perhaps the greatest act of deception is the preposterous claim about the thrust of the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander.

The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are.»

Yet the tale of Thanos» greatest act of evil has remained untold... until now.

They can help reawaken your inner lover to inspire the greatest act of connection and creation.

Congressman Lee Zeldin called the amendment the single greatest act of fiscal relief ever provided to Suffolk County and its taxpayers.

«First we think it's the greatest act of hypocrisy that they want to stand up and say they're not in favor of immigration.

What a tragedy that history's greatest act of humility is being marked by petty acts of entitlement and pride.

For with baptism, «we are immersed in that inexhaustible source of life that is Jesus's death, the greatest act of love in all of history.»

The Irrevocable Sacrifice But it is also the greatest act of love from a second perspective.

That is the greatest act of love imaginable.

Perhaps the greatest act of love I received in my grief came from how my wife walked with me.

He discounts the greatest act of love which truly makes him God's enemy according to the most accepted interpretation of Christianity.

God is love, love comes from God, and Jesus» death on the cross was the single greatest act of love this world has ever known.

But again, many of the greatest sacrifices I have seen are from men who gave their last years caring for their wives, the greatest act of love.

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

After various struggles with the unromantic face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»

In the sufferings and death that Jesus willingly and humbly accepts we see the greatest act of love as he offers himself in atonement for the selfish sins of mankind.

It was the greatest act of love that ever occured in the history of the universe.

The greatest act of courage is found in forgiveness.

Running headlong into danger is an act of courage, but not the greatest act of courage.

The greatest act of love is, truly, to listen.

As I've noted before, the greatest act of respect for American troops would be for the Bush Administration to extract the U.S. from the role of occupier and to legitimize its role as peacekeeper; to abandon the objective of unilaterally shaping Iraq, shift enforcement to a wider force of NATO troops, and expand the role of the United Nations in civil matters.

I'll be honest: My greatest act of trust was getting married 29 years ago.

One of the very greatest acts of statesmanship in the postwar world was when the founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic (West Germany), Konrad Adenauer, declined Stalin's offer of reunification in exchange for German neutrality in the Cold War.

But as I studied God's letter for myself and began to discipline myself in reading, even before my age was marked with double digits, I found time and time again that this was true; the Bible was constantly reminding me of God's love for me in the words that He said about me and in the great acts of love He displayed.

Jesus» last great act of teaching with his disciples was to wash their feet.

«Making angel food cake is one of the great acts of culinary faith», but with strawberries in a light syrup faith is rewarded (it usually is not).

«In a great act of philosophizing even the finger - tips think — but they no longer feel.»

But this is not merely an example of humility (girding with a towel is the action of a slave, 13:4); the deeper point is that the disciple's real cleansing from sin will be consummated in an even greater act of humility than this one — in the death of Christ itself.

God's great act of salvation is for the poor and needy.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

@Tct Although I do agree with you that the victims in this tragedy do deserve the most attention and the stories of the survivors are being shared all over the news world from this tragedy and the many great acts of kindness that were expressed from the cross builder guy to Christian Bale himself and the movies team of directors and all that.

The great act of God had already passed through the stages of the sending of the Messiah, His miraculous works and authoritative teaching, His death (according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God), His resurrection, and His exaltation to the right hand of God.

My great act of faith was to not only unschedule it, to not only put it back into Drafts, but to entirely and irrevocably delete it.

In India, yogis are sought after for their ability to preform great acts of spirituality.

But it must be understood that by this insistence on a direct return to the great Act of God on which Christianity is founded, I am by no means implying that all modern churches have lost their vision or reduced the revolutionary Good News to dull orthodoxy.

Measuring a foot thick, the «extraordinary object» was described by the British Library's chief executive Roly Keating as «one of the great acts of creative book production of the entire millennium».

The resurrection of Jesus was the great act of God which had closed the old era and inaugurated the new.

Then we shall have neither time nor strength to improvise the great act of a fully Christian and sacerdotal death.

These are all, undoubtedly, great acts of courage.

Theologically, we repeat, Joshua is the last scene of the first great act of the Old Testament story, the completion of the first great event, the total event of Egypt - Sinai.

Our whole life should be a preparatory exercise for the great act of our death, the act of our supreme sacrifice with Jesus.

Opting out is normally associated with cowardice, but in my mind it's staying in the mating arena out of fear of societal (or parental) disapproval that is the greater act of cowardice.

Having been demoted from foreign secretary to leader of the house in 1989 — although he was given the largely meaningless title of Deputy PM to soften the blow — Howe quit in November 1990, and in one of the great acts of Commons theatre used his resignation speech to savage Thatcher over the Poll Tax and Europe.

Great acts of statesmanship are grounded in realism no less than idealism.

«I am worried by the idea that by the mid part of this century, asking people to retire at 70 — incidentally, the age intended by Lloyd George in his great Act of 1908 — will be seen as the way to fix this problem, because we may not correct everything that we hope to correct just by increasing the state pension age and doing everything contained in this excellent Bill.

He knows too well that great acts of exploration What do you do after pushing the boundaries of the solar system?