Sentences with phrase «hand laid upon»

Luther stands in the pulpit with his left hand laid upon an open book of scripture and with the right gesturing to a central crucifix.

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Just as the song begins to fit into a niche, it stops to breath, leaving nothing but the piano line and then some choir - y organ as the lyrics begin to confess, And here I stand a broken man / If I could I would raise my hands / I come before you humbly / If I could I'd be on my knees / Come lay down your head upon my chest / Feel my heart beat feel my unrest / If Jesus could only wash my feet / Then I'd get up strong and muscle on.

And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

It is like a cartoon showing a group of gay Christians, all laying hands upon one person, and praying that the «demon of being straight» will be cast out.

If Jesus lays his hand upon someone they are bound to be changed.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

There have been reactionary times when the past laid its dead hand oppressively upon the present, when all old things were glorified and all new things were hated, when the new iron plowshares were preached against as sacrilegious.

There people brought a deaf and dumb man and asked Jesus to lay his hands upon him; here they bring a blind man and ask Jesus to touch him.

Hope is that virtue by which we strive after something great, recognising that we can not yet lay our hands definitively upon the prize.

The story moves toward its climax, Abraham acting with the same simplicity, austerity, and dignity as before: He built (the altar), laid (the wood), bound (Isaac his son), laid (him on the altar, upon the wood), stretched - forth (his hand), took (the knife) to slaughter his son (22:9 — 10).

The priest was to lay his hands upon the scapegoat, symbolically passing all of Israel's sins upon the goat, and then the goat was to be sent away into the wilderness, where it (presumably) died, taking all the sins of Israel with it into the grave.

But one thing is the business of religion; it always has been the business of religion — to lay its hands upon life's holy places and insist that they shall not be violated.

Rome may have laid a heavy hand upon turbulent peoples, but the Roman peace was a boon to a large part of the human race.

«If his offering be a goat... he shall lay his hand upon the head... and kill it... and... sprinkle the blood... round about.»

And I will look to see from whence I came upon all the residue of laid traps set by my fearful hands lying open and empty behind me.

Act 19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

Now God hath not forsaken a man in this hell, but He is laying his hand upon him, that the man may not desire nor regard anything but the eternal Good only.

If a man comes to me and says Jesus heal my children for they suffer greatly and are near deaths door I say unto to him If you do nt have an insurance card you must pay in cash before I will lay hands upon you or your children for God does not care for the lazy poor» Sanctimonious 1:1

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity: «I will lay mine hand upon my mouth; I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee.»

And when he laid his hand upon them, he put his arms around them.»

5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.

But we can so tell the story within the house of negation and emptiness that the great passion lay its hand upon the wan, quiescent, or aggressive passions that the hearer might exclaim, «If it were true, «twould do!»

First of all, the fear of interpreting Scripture by and for a congregation as though it were a case of laying soiling human hands upon the Divine or pouring water into the pure wine must be dispelled.

In the meantime, we must learn to be humble in the awareness that it is God, the Lord of all life, who has laid his hand upon us in this crisis.

(Re 3:14) If he failed, he would reproach his Father's name as none other could.In selecting his only - begotten Son, Jehovah, of course, was not «laying his hands hastily upon him,» with the risk of being «a sharer in possible sins,» for Jesus was no novice likely to get «puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil.»

He called her, told her she was cured, and laid his hands upon her.

(In Mark 6:5, Jesus lays his hands upon the sick; Paul does so in Acts 28:8.)

A further distinction, important to make but not self - evident, is the extent to which Israel simply took over prevailing social regulations, and on the other hand, gave unique and distinctive meaning to the duties they believed laid upon them by their covenant with Yahweh.

It is no longer philistine to lay the rude hands of logical analysis upon them — and they need not come out the worse for so doing, as Peirce noted so well in his paper «Neglected Argument» years back!

And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.

13And the LORD said to Moses, 14 ″ Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

But at some point, no matter how non-literalist you become, your religion is still based upon what the literalists have made of what lay close to hand.

(2) The opportunity of the young adult intimacy crisis, on the other hand, is that of laying a foundation of mutuality upon which a life of satisfying sharing can be built.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty.

Laying out the fruit sponge, scattering with delicious fruit and adding thick layers upon layers of custard, cream, jelly and whatever else you have on hand is all part of the process.

The light lay upon the girl's dark, shiny hair and caused it to glow like some angel had just lifted a hand away from the crown of her head.

I can sense He's real close, probablycrouching right down beside me with His face up close to mine.And He lays His hands upon my head and takes hold of the sack, intending to lift it up, I'm sure, and I quickly shut my eyes becauseI'm afraid to look upon the face of God, and we're about to be rightup close, my eyes looking into His eyes, and that don't seem right tome.

Another thing was my love for the tactility of oil paint: like many other painters, when I look at art I get very close to the painting in order to get a sense of how the paint was laid upon the canvas, trying to feel the brushes in the painter's hand.

Whether visitors basked in the virtual warmth of Olafur Eliasson's fake sun in his «Weather Project,» or laid themselves upon Ai Weiwei's field of 100 million hand - painted porcelain sunflower seeds (until the dust stirred up was decreed a health hazard), the collective, interactive experience of these artworks has generated its own momentum and a new set of norms for the museum - going experience.

Executed in layers of acrylic that Diao painstakingly lays on by hand with a knife, they are monochromatic and not expressive in any conventional sense, while also revealing the presence of the artist's hand, which is betrayed by the painterly incident that is evident upon close examination.

Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them:

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She was taken into a room where she was tied to a bed naked and her hands and feet were spread open and tied to the corners of the frame the mattress laid upon.